Wesley J Landaker wrote:
On Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:28, David Liontooth wrote:I agree, this sounds a lot like a video driver problem. I don't even think the likelihood of this being wrong is particularly high <g>Well, I thought the same thing, but I was mostly just trying to figure out if it was that or just something dumb in how I had set things up, so since I wasn't able to figure it out with quite a lot of tweaking and experimenting, I thought I'd see if anyone else had experienced the problem. =)I've used the nVidia drivers for years and I've seen this behavior. What's your card, and which driver version?(Curious: you have seen this behavior? Or was that a typo, and you meant you haven't?)
No, I've seen it -- I think with a riva chip and a recent driver. Worse than what you describe, but the same kind of thing. I ended up using nv, which worked fine. I imagine you'd find others with the same problem on the nVidia discussion list http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
Anyway, at first I when I read your both suggestions, I was thinking, "yeah, okay, so maybe it's the video driver, but nvidia claims to have never heard about the problem, and I have the latest driver!" But, turns out that a new nvidia driver came out a week or so ago, and had the following:* Added a workaround for an X server bug with PCI-E GeForce 6800 and GeForce 6600; a fix has been provided to XFree86 and XOrg.(I have a GeForce 6800 PCI-E.) Upgrading to the latest version of the nvidia drivers both in my main system and in my chroot seemed to fix it.Now I'm happy, but curious what the "X server bug" that they worked around was ...
Great. Have you checked whether the nv driver handles PCI-E? Dave