In a previous message, Matthew Johnson
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 06:08, John Pettigrew wrote:
However, trying to use this driver in any way (e.g. running sax2 or starting an X session) caused the screen to corrupt (a few blue lines in the bottom inch of the screen) and the computer to crash terminally Do the proper install for 8.2 may help. Did you perchance do "sh nvidia-installer###.sh --extract-only"? This is fine for 8.1 where the newer installer does not work.
Nope (and, in any case, the 8.1 advice is to use the rpm version): init 3 sh NVIDIA****.run The installer then runs automatically and I select the "compile a module" option because there is none available from NVIDIA's website. This apparently builds successfully and the installer quits. Attempting to run sax2 after this (using e.g. the recommended 'sax2 -m 0=nvidia') causes the crash, as (IIRC) did going to runlevel 5 after using switch2nvidia instead of sax2. Given the nasty consequences of this problem, I'm not that keen on trying lots of different things out unless I'm reasonably sure they'll work. John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards