Re: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-13 Thread Munish Chopra
On 2003-07-12 21:22 +, Will Saxon wrote: Well I have to say that about 30min after I wrote in originally, I started having problems. X locked up, but I could switch around to different vty's and also ctrl-alt-bksp out of X. However, when I tried to restart X my machine locked up

Re: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-13 Thread Evan Dower
That may have done it. Now that I recompiled nvidia-driver only WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, doing glxinfo several times no longer wreaks havoc. Since something seems to be screwy with my network driver (rtl8139) when the kernel is compiled without optimizations, I recompiled with them and so far all is

Re: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-13 Thread Munish Chopra
On 2003-07-13 01:47 +, Evan Dower wrote: That may have done it. Now that I recompiled nvidia-driver only WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, doing glxinfo several times no longer wreaks havoc. Since something seems to be screwy with my network driver (rtl8139) when the kernel is compiled without

RE: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-12 Thread Will Saxon
I just installed these drivers on my machine, which uses a Geforce4 Ti4200. I had 10 glxgears processes running in the background and was running glxinfo over and over, and while the glxgears processes were not really spinning very fast nothing crashed or anything like that. Machine is running

RE: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-12 Thread Evan Dower
After following all the instructions at http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ stable. (I had to switch to another computer to

Re: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-12 Thread Munish Chopra
On 2003-07-12 14:46 +, Evan Dower wrote: After following all the instructions at http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_

Re: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-12 Thread sweetleaf
Evan Dower wrote: After following all the instructions at http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ stable. (I had to switch to

RE: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-12 Thread Will Saxon
. -Will -Original Message- From: Munish Chopra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 5:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability? On 2003-07-12 14:46 +, Evan Dower wrote: After following all the instructions at http