Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well it certainly works with 2.6.24 which is the kernel currently in unstable. Until 2.6.25 enters unstable I won't have a clue if the nvidia driver works with it, nor will I particularly care. :)
The nvidia-breaking change was before 2.6.24, so there is hope. I have to use a recent kernel for reasons other than nvidia.
Maybe you are lucky having not exactly the same hardware as me then. There are many nvidia cards after all.That is certainly true. I have a 6600GT and an 8600GT at home, and a 5200FX and 6200 at work. So far so good.That could happen - but I don't think so when all trouble go away byusing the vesa X driver. Vesa having useable (although not fantastic) performancealso means I probably aren't using the GPU all that hard when it locks themachine.When you enable 3D mode the power consumption of a video card can go up by quite a lot (close to 100W on high end cards). So 2D and hence VESA could work great with a crap power supply, but 3D mode would fail.
That argument is fine _if_ I use the 3D stuff heavily - such as some game with a decent number of fps. But I did ordinary work using X, lightweightstuff that vesa can handle too. Nvidia's driver probably use more gpu features
than vesa, but the amount of work needed for a plain desktop with no eye candy is minimal. I don't think that does much for power consumption.No continous repainting of the screen, just using the gpu a bit to help out with
the occational rectangle or text string. Helge Hafting