10 Apr
2004
10 Apr
'04
21:58
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:02:14 +1000
"Paul C. Leopardi"
Another great way to increase stability in a system is to not use the binary only Nvidia driver. Unfortunately, XFree86 4.3 does not support the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700. If I try using it I get jittery screens, blanking screens, etc. Should I try building XFree86 4.4 or the SUSE version 4.3.99? suse.de/people/matz/xfree86-fdo/ has binary RPMs for i586 but I can't find SRPMs or x86_64 RPMs.
Rebuilding the SRPM will probably work.
I have ordered SUSE Linux Professional 9.1. Maybe some of these problems will be fixed there? At least I'll be able to try ditching the binary only Nvidia driver.
9.1 should support the card with the standard X server. -Andi