Paul Hoepfner-Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I tried to install XFree86 4.0 on Beta 2 of Mandrake 7.1 using the
> RPMs from contrib. I managed to forcefully uninstall all the XFree86
> 3.3.6 RPMs that are installed by default, and install all the
> necessary XFree86 4.0 RPMs. But when I try to run X by typing startx,
> it almost loads, but then just before it's about to display the screen
> with the X cursor it segfaults back to the console, and the entire
> screen is messed; I can just barely make out what is being displayed
> in the console. (Switching consoles doesn't fix the screen, I have to
> reboot for that.)
>
> I have an nVidia RIVA TNT card, and I tried it both the old nVidia
> driver ("nv") and the new beta nVidia driver ("nvidia") and they both
> do the same thing. I had XFree86 4.0 working without problems back in
> Mandrake 7.0 with both the "nv" and "nvidia" drivers, but it just
> doesn't work with 7.1 beta. I am even using the same XF86Config file
> that I had in 7.0. I had to uninstall XFree86 4.0 and put back 3.3.6
> so I could get into X.
>
> Anyone else have a similar experience?
This week-end I tried out the new optimized "nvidia" driver from Nvidia,
with their glx extension and kernel module, all this on our LM7.1 beta.
I had no problem running the XF4.0 server ; but trying out q3demo was very
disappointing: I had just the time to see that all was reeeally quick and
smooth, it then locked out, sometimes displaying the X or Icewm mouse
pointer instead of quake cursor, sometimes not. I had to remotely
"kill -9" the process.
I saw on their doc that they advice to deactivate DGA for mouse, to no
avail [option was already in my XF86Config-4, maybe from DrakX].
Pixel also tried this config on another machine, reported no problem at
all [and, YES, q3demo is also DAMN quick on Linux machines with a proper
driver..].
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Guillaume Cottenceau
