Tom Allison wrote:
:-)
You have hit the nVIDIA Driver Brickwall Syndrome.
Even the very latest driver (5336), which is supposed to have fixed all sorts of problems, causes you to hit the Brickwall.
Tell us (me) which video card you are using and which version of the kernel (Athlon or non-Athlon)?
Depending on your answer, you may have to go back to the #4363 driver (you would uninstall the driver you just installed with 'nvidia-installer --uninstall' and then install the #4363 driver.
(What I concluded is that any driver after #4363 does not like something in the combination of the Athlon CPU and (?) any card below, say, FX5200 (eg MX 400, 440. This is a broad statement and is not meant to be authorative.)
Cheers.
Athlon 3200+ Gigabyte GA7n400 Pro2 nVidia GeForce MX 550 Linux 2.4.21-166-athlon #1
Yep, all the ingredients for a crippled driver are here.
Kind of a bummer if true. Any plans to fix?
This has been going on for many months (since the 4363's successor) so I don't think it is going to be fixed. There is nothing wrong with the 4363 and it works perfectly. So, install 4363 and allow your blood pressure to return to normal :-). Alternatively, invest in the FX5200 card (as a minimum), which is a better performer anyway and not expensive, and the latest 5336 driver will work with it. (This is how I found out because I had to put the MX440 into the other computer so bought myself the FX5200 (128Mb) to replace it, and just for a lark installed the 5336 only to get the pleasant surprise that it worked with the FX5200.) Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.