On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, alan wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, John Allen wrote: > > > Having tried both the NVIDIA 1.0 2960, and 3123 builds with MDK 9.0 RC3, > > OpenGL apps crash quite easily. The 2960 build is working fine on the > > same machine with the stock 8.2 kernel. > > > > So either their is a problem with the kernel, or gcc 3.2 when compiling > > NVIDIA drivers. > > > > Anybody got any ideas; I'd most likely blame gcc 3.2 > > I would blame GCC 3.2 as well. Redhat 8.0 beta does the same thing. > > Due to the weird problems I have had, I am not moving to any distribution > that uses GCC 3.2 until the bugs are worked out.
Maybe you should rather ensure that this isn't either a: 1)Hardware issue 2)need for an updated bios or something similar being exposed (but not caused) by gcc3.2 (like some of the bugs with ide chipsets exposed by the i586-compiled kernels, found by Mandake ...). I personally have 2 machines running cooker on NVidia cards (TNT2, GeForce2MX) with the NVidia binary drivers, and have tested on GeForce4Ti's at work, and have't seen one X crash since I started running cooker (soon after 8.2 release). I am sure there are a lot of other people who do too. All other problems have turned out to not be Mandrake bugs, but rather one of the two issues above. If you can give a meaningful bug report that can show otherwise, that would help, but otherwise please check that the issue isn't something else. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
