OK, the drivers were NVDIDIA_GLX-1.0-1251.tar.gz and NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.tar.gz
I discovered a host of people suffering the same sort of probs, some think it may be
to do with only the non mesa stuff, ie that could be why the gears prog still ran (at
least once!).
Also found someone who reckons it could be worth investigating the permissions on
/dev/nvidia0 as apparently this doesnt tend to happen if you are root at the time (how
they found out i cant imagine, great way to shaft the box , playing games as root!!)
any thoughts ??
-----Original Message-----
From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:26:44 +0200
To: "Simon Naish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL
> On Friday 01 June 2001 10:27, Simon Naish wrote:
> > Last night I decided to sort it out and get the NVidia drivers running on
> > my machine.
> >
> > All went well, I installed from tar zips made the Kernel driver and the
> > OpenGL lib no problem. Sat back astonished at the positively outrageous
> > speed of gltron and the ultra smooth spectacle of tuxracer. 8^)
> >
> > Fired it up this morning to have a quick go before work and ... It locked
> > up going into anything(?) =-{
> >
> > I can get gears to work, once, then it fails as does everything else. Could
> > it be a 'lock'file somewhere, or display settings of some kind - I am
> > running my own modeline in XF86Config-4 to get the best out of the monitor.
> >
> > Also the xlog does seem to be discarding ALOT of resolutions, but this
> > doesn't really explain why it worked fine yesterday and not now.
> >
> > I did have a crash and total lock up both with gltron and open space last
> > night but on rebooting everything did still work...
> >
> > Please help, this is just one more in a huge string of problems I seem to
> > have waded through with Mandrake 8.0 .
> >
> > cheers si
>
> Which NVIDIA drivers? The 1.0 version seem to segfault if you come up in
> runlevel 5 but work fine from a startx. The older version seems to work well
> either way.
>
> Civileme
>
>
>
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