Hi Andrew, > I used to use the nvidia module but I gave up on it ages ago as it wasn't worth it. Because it's closed source it's impossible for people to keep it up to date with changes in the kernel. It's always breaking and you have to wait for someone to figure out a fix or for Nvidia to release a new one. Each time you recompile the kernel you have to reinstall the nvidia module and for what? The only thing I ever compiled that needed the hardware accelerated graphics was Tuxracer, which isn't that great. If I wanted to play games I'd use an Xbox or PS2. So now I just use the XFree86 nv driver which works fine all the time. No need to compile any modules.
The nv driver works, yes. But it does correctly display the screen according to the settings of my monitor, the nv driver needs the monitor to be adjusted with the monitor knobs. Well, this is not very important, but in the few cases I need to boot into my (boring) Windows installation, I would need to re-set the monitor settings when Windows is running. So I had a look at the nvidia driver archive: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html I downloaded all 7* drivers, and I found out that the driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run can both be installed under kernel 2.6.11.7 and 2.6.13.1. So, as a hint for others, just try all these drivers, maybe one of them works ... Regards, Jens ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
