Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
* Basil Chupin
(Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:36:08PM +1000) Do what most of us appear to have done which is to throw the new 4496 nVidia in the toilet, where they belong, and use the previous version (4363).
After all the troubles 4496 has caused to people one would have thought that nVidia would have pulled there finger out and fixed the driver but No, not a stir out of them. I check their site every night but there isn't even an acknowledgement that there may be problem with the 4496 driver.
Save your sanity- go back to the 4363 driver.
I missed out a large portion of this discussion, but Im curious to hear what issues people have with the 4496 driver.
I've installed 4496 on a vairety of machines and cards, running either suse 73 or suse82 (Geforce2, Geforce4, Geforce 5200, quadro 2 and 4 and the 2go/4go flavours for laptops) and never had an issue with them
[well, if you have a custom kernel, you might have to set the IGNORE__CC_MISMATCH (or similar) variable before installing the latest driver]
So, could you please let me know what issues there are with the 4496 ?
Apart from the problem outlined in the messages in this thread I, for one, get a black screen when I press CTRL-ALT-F2 to F6; and get a multi-coloured, blinking screen when I press CTRL-ALT-F1 and also when I either restart ot shutdown. If I don't do any of these then everything is fine - the driver works. But should some application lock up and I have to KILL it I can only do it by going to another Desktop, start a Console, login as root, do 'ps aux' and then KILL the app. Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility.