It works fine with W$ - both 98 and XP. I have to have them there as I support customers who use them, but apart from that, those partions remain pretty dusty! I am not suggesting that the card is faulty, just that nVidia may not have put quite as much time into trying their drivers with the zillions of combinations of hardware that are using their chipsets on linux as they did under windoze. I suspect that a large amount of code in the W$ drivers consists of work-arounds for various OS botches. Maybe this makes the doze versions a little more tolerant of some slight strangeness in my card.
Anyway, I'll try another one and report back. thanks again Brian P.S. Don't worry - I won't charge extra for the burn-in ;) On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:55, Ralph Slooten wrote: > It may not be the card itself, but a conflict with your hardware. But yes, > I would not rule out totally that the card may be fautly. Have you ever > tried this configuration with Winblows? If so, did it work there? Please, > you do not have to install it just to test ;-) > > Otherwise, it seems easy for you to get your hands on other cards, just > remind me not to buy any computers from a place where a "Brian" works ;-) > > Greetings > Ralph > > On 1 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: > > > OK Ralph, > > > > Gave that a try. Looked thru your file and it was similar enough to > > mine to be able to use it without change. Saved my XF86config-4 and > > replaced it with yours. Installed the downloaded rpms. Same result - > > long delay after startx, then nVidia splash, then KDE. Ran evolution, > > clicked on a message (it displayed) clicked on the trash to delete it, > > hung. Can't stop X, can't switch to a console, can't ping the machine, > > frozen solid. > > > > I am willing to wager a small amount (very small) that if I pulled the > > graphics card and put in another nvidia based card, it would be likely > > to work. In fact, next time I build a machine for a customer, their new > > card may just get a brief burn-in period doing just that. I'll let you > > know the result, but that could be a while (building machines is only a > > small part of my business). > > > > Thanks anyway - it was a good thing to try. > > > > cheers > > Brian > > -- > Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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