So far every NVIDIA driver release has worked fine for me, including playing Neverwinter Nights and Unreal Tournament 2003. No X Lockups, no reboots, no console screwups (with or without framebuffer).
Currently runing 4496 with GeForce2 MX 400 on a Athlon 1.4 Thunderbird and Linux version 2.4.22-10mdk on latest cooker. This Machine is usually continuously running for 5 days and shut down for the weekends. Card:NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic): nVidia Corporation|NV11 Geforce2 MX/MX 400 [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10de device:0110 subv:10b0 subd:0001) Serge P.S. The only console screwups I get with Mandrake 9.1/9.2/cooker is running it under VMWare (all 4.0.x versions) after quitting X. Both with the Mandrake included VMWare driver or the native application one. On Saturday 11 October 2003 02:41, Juan Quintela wrote: > >>>>> "jay" == Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi > > jay> On Wednesday 08 October 2003 5:51 am, John Allen honored me with this > > jay> communique: > >> On Tuesday 07 October 2003 21:47, Luca Olivetti wrote: > >> > John Allen escribió: > >> > > Don't use NVIDIA's 4496. Anything later than 4191 is a disaster; > >> > > from console more screwups to reboots, and X hard locks. > >> > > >> > Funny, I could say the same for anything *earlier* than 4363 (adding > >> > filesystem corruption to the mix). > >> > Maybe it's just nvidia releasing crap in *every* version. > >> > >> Ah well, YMMV as they say. > >> > >> I have found that with my geForce4 MX440's only 4191 is stable. > >> > >> > Bye > > jay> Still running 4191 myself: GeForce MX 420. Can't get anything later to > compile jay> properly, and 4191 seems to work just fine. > > jay> I hate those darn ".run" files, anyway. > > Grrr, NVidia cards are just making my life miserable. I have almost > the same hardware that one of the Bug reporters and things work well > for me. > > I need to try to found a pattern somewher. Until now it appears that: > > - drivers 4363 works for a lot of people. > - drivers 4496 fails for several people (they work for me). > > Can people please mail me the output of lspcidrake -v and telling me > what versions work/don't work for you? > > I have found that machines fail with PIII, PIV and athlons, both with > NVidia IGP and normal cards. > > Only pattern found until now are that the following cards fail: > > - GForce MX > - Gforce2 MX > - IGP (Gforce4 MX) > - standalone GForce4 MX > > At least the: > - GForce3 Ti500 work (guess what is the card that I have) > > > Current theory is that: > > New driver with cards older than GForce3 fail. GForce4 MX if I > remember correctly is just a GForce2 core "on steroids". > > > Later, Juan "learning too much about NVidia graphics cards".
