On Saturday 25 October 2003 9:51 am, Jan Elders wrote:
On Friday 24 October 2003 22:05, LinuxWorld999 wrote:
On Thursday 23 October 2003 8:18 pm, Jan Elders wrote:
Hi everybody, This my attempt to contribute some information for people who are struggling with the NVIDIA 4496 driver (like I have been doing for many weeks).
<snip> To successfully install the 4496 drivers, the kernel sources have to be installed and correctly configured. The kernel source can be installed from the install cd / dvd. Change to /usr/src/linux and run make cloneconfig, make dep, make bzImage and make modules. After this the Nvidia packages compiled but a variable "IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes" has to be set.
Yes, I did all of that (as part of my struggling), but nevertheless this 4496 driver does not work well for me (and other people). The 4363 driver works perfect ! There definitely IS something wrong with the 4496. Maybe it depends on the type of card that is being used ?? Anyway, I maintain my advice to go back to the 4363 driver for the unlucky people that can't get it right with the 4496. <snip>
If the compile is successful, running "init 3" and then sax2 also helps. If however all else fails, then reverting to the old driver is the only option. LW999