Re: X11 and Elf_RelocateEntry()
On Monday 11 August 2003 11:36 am, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:48:17 +0200, Gregor Stößer
> >>>>> <stoesser@chemie.uka.de> said:
>
> Gregor> I had the same problems, I tried XFree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, all
> Gregor> withour success so I gave up using the NVidia driver. I know
> Gregor> the 3D performance is twice as much as the one from XFree
> Gregor> (at least on my x86 machines), but I don't think the time
> Gregor> for getting the driver to work is it worth. Sorry I have no
> Gregor> better advice
>
> Debian/stable _should_ be fine. In fact, my home machine is a zx2000
> with Debian/stable and I'm using the Nvidia driver (v4050). It's
> working well.
>
> BTW: The zx2000 support web site has Nvidia driver v4431 available. I
> haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It's available here (sorry for
> the long URL):
>
> http://h20004.www2.hp.com/soar_rnotes/bsdmatrix/matrix82074en_US.html#Drive
>r%20-%20Graphics%20-%20Nvidia
>
> --david
Based on the preceeding email, I decided to download XFree86
4.3.0 and go with that. Same problem. Then after considerable
thinking I decided to try compiling it with gcc-2.96 (Debian set the
default compiler on my system to gcc-3.3) This made a large
difference but whether for the better is open to question. The first
time I tried startx, it said no screen this is with the XF86Config-4
installed by Nvidia. So I changed to the config file from my other
machine, also nvidia ( and is sharing the monitor via KVM switch)
second try, it came up, but with the twm window manager. Wanting
KDE, I did ctrl-alt-backspace to shutdown X The machine hung.
Finally had to power down. On re-power, it complained
about the disk and prompted to have fsck run manually. But
it wasn't listening to the keyboard -- dead in the water
Finally used recovery shell to fsck and then was able to boot
before trying again, I did a telnet to the machine first in hopes
I could regain control if things went bad. No such luck.
I did startx kde3 but intead of starting KDE, it passed kde to
xterm as a param and it died during start up. The telnet session
didn't help as it went dead with the rest. I guess the kernel
is crashed so bad it can't even say "PANIC" Had to use
recovery shell again.
I'm open to suggestions.
Richard
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