Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:49:39PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Anyway, it's > > working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia > > installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm happy for now! > > Since an xorg update a few

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Geoff Reidy wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Anyway, it's working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia installer)

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Geoff Reidy wrote: > I had a similar issue but with a 2 card, 3 monitor setup. > > Applying the patch as per this thread: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1306609&postcount=19 > against the 190.53 driver has fixed it for me. I had this issue under 2.

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-03 Thread Geoff Reidy
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> Anyway, it's >>> working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia >>> installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm happy for now! >> Since an xo

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2010-02-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> Anyway, it's >>> working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia >>> installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Anyway, it's >> working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia >> installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm happy for now! > > Since an xorg update a few days ago, it

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Anyway, it's > working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia > installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm happy for now! Since an xorg update a few days ago, it's not working with anything. Compiling against the current stoc

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:49:43 -0500 (EST), Andreas Weber wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Slow for what purposes? 3D graphics? Real-time animated games? >> I don't do either of those things. I mainly use X for web browsing. >> I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire. >> Is the prop

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Andreas Weber wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Slow for what purposes?  3D graphics?  Real-time animated games? >> I don't do either of those things.  I mainly use X for web browsing. >> I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire. >> Is the proprietary

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-29 Thread Andreas Weber
Stephen Powell wrote: > Slow for what purposes? 3D graphics? Real-time animated games? > I don't do either of those things. I mainly use X for web browsing. > I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire. > Is the proprietary Nvidia driver really going to make a dramatic improvement > f

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri January 29 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > Slow for what purposes?  3D graphics?  Real-time animated games? > I don't do either of those things.  I mainly use X for web browsing. > I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire. > Is the proprietary Nvidia driver really going to make a

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:17:34 -0500 (EST), Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri January 29 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Please pardon my ignorance, but curiosity has gotten the best of me. >> What exactly is the draw that this >> proprietary Nvidia driver has that the open source nv driver does not >>

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-29 Thread Andreas Weber
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I post > this just to suggest the same solution to others who have experienced > the same frustration. (And my next Linux laptop will not have Nvidia > video, however good it is - and it is - when it works.) I'm curious what exactly the problems were that you faced. When

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:09:42 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I've been following the threads of people frustrated with getting > nvidia drivers to work, and have experienced much of that frustration > myself over the last few days. I've tried everything to get my nvidia > working with the 2.6.30 a

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:09:42AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I've been following the threads of people frustrated with getting > nvidia drivers to work, and have experienced much of that frustration > myself over the last few days. I've tried everything to get my nvidia > working with the 2.

Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-28 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I've been following the threads of people frustrated with getting nvidia drivers to work, and have experienced much of that frustration myself over the last few days. I've tried everything to get my nvidia working with the 2.6.30 and 2.6.32 kernels (I'm on a lenovo ThinkPad T61p, amd64, testing) w