Re: 2 problems after sid update (nvidia and kde menus)
> Daniel Teichert wrote:
>
> > And I heard Haim Ashkenazi exclaim:
> >> 1. my nvidia drivers take a very long time to load (about 30 seconds),
> >> and every time I switch from X to console and back it takes about 15
> >> seconds to load. I thought it was a memory/CPU issue but running top
> >> didn't show heavy load while switching. I run the latest
> >> nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx binaries with kernel 2.4.24.
> >
> > Not very helpful, perhaps, but I had this same problem and compiled
> > 2.6.3 with the kernel modules as per the instructions found here:
> >
> > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
> I can't use 2.6 since I'm using vmware, and I don't think it supports kernel
> 2.6.
Haim,
If you want to run kernel 2.6, you can still run vmware:
- Install vmware as usual, but don't run vmware-config.pl.
- Go to ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/ and grab the latest vmware-
any-any-update*.tar.gz.
- Unpack it, and run ./runme.pl.
runme.pl will patch your copy of vmware to work with kernel 2.6, then
run vmware-config.pl. If you need to reconfigure vmware in the future,
there's no need to rerun runme.pl; just run vmware-config.pl.
If you want to stick with kernel 2.4, you can still follow the
instructions at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-
nVidia/installation.html. They work for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. I don't
know if that will solve your problem, but it might.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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