kernel video driver question - Nvidia
I'm running woody and I'm using the Nvidia driver from the Nvidia site (not
currently using the debian package).
I have two questions:
Font selection kills my video:
In any application that allows the selection of fonts (running under any
window/session manager), selecting fonts often crashes X -- well it
probably is the Nvidia driver as the screen goes black with random colors
scattered around. Sometimes it will recover if I kill X
(ctrl-alt-backspace), but most of the time I have to ssh in and reboot. It
really looks like semi-random data was written to the video buffer.
I run gdm, and one time I guessed I was back at the login screen by the way
it was accessing disk when I typed on the keyboard.
ssh'ing in and killing X doesn't reset the video -- I've only found that
rebooting works.
Anyone seen this?
Second, although the debian Nvidia package (for testing) is not the most
current driver available, I'm wondering if I should use the debian package
instead of installing the package from the nvidia site, and if so, why.
One thing I don't understand is what to do when building a new kernel. Is
there a way to keep old kernel modules that are not part of the build
process? A few times now I've built a new kernel and then forgot to move
the nvidia driver to the new modules directory, and then X won't start.
What's the correct way to do that, other than just remember to manually
move the file?
Thanks,
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Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@hank.org
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