On Monday 29 April 2002 07:41 pm, you wrote: > OK, I think it's time to give up on this and wait until nVidia can write > a driver that works. Femme sent me the RPMs that worked for her, which > (not surprisingly) are entirely consistent with those I downloaded from > nVidia. I also tried removing all NV related rpms and installing the > kernel and glx rpms from the LM 8.2 powerpack commercial CD. Did the > edits to /etc/X11/XF86config-4. Ran XFdrake. Even rebooted. > > It seems I can either have it with acceleration and an uptime of about > 30 seconds after starting X, or stable without acceleration. Strangely > enough if I run TUXracer immediately after starting X (i.e. before it > has time to die) TUX seems happy to keep on sliding indefinitely. But > try running software manager, or evolution, or anything else that does > normal, non-fancy graphic stuff and the system freezes solid. Can't > stop X. Can't ssh (or even ping) from another machine. Big red switch > time. > > Even the startx sequence looks nasty. I get a blank screen for 15-20 > seconds, a flicker, another 15-20 seconds of blank, a coarse grey > pattern, a finer grey pattern, back to coarse, then finally an nVidia > splash screen and a KDE startup. Seems like the driver is cycling > through a whole lot of settings, trying to find a response, but who > knows really? > > I need to get some real work done on this system, so unless someone has > a REAL bright idea, I'll just leave the gaming in the Windows domain, > sigh regretfully, and be resigned to the fact that M$ is going to keep > it's market share as long as this sort of crap comes standard with my > otherwise much-preferred OS. and yeah, I know it's probably some > weirdness associated with my generic Geforce 2 MMX 400 DDR card, but > guess what - that's what's out there. And of course with W$ it works > just fine. > > Thanks for the help Femme. > > cheers > Brian Brian, try one more thing for you give up. Reduce the number of colors your running by one notch. Also check the documentation on your monitor and make sure it is capable of the resolution you have set. Just a for what it's worth. HTH Dennis M. linux user #180842
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