Re: Nvidia driver -why so hard to install?
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 01:26, stavel@brailcom.org wrote:
> Hi nvidia users,
> >>>>> "Ron" == Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
>
> Ron> Hmmm, the driver 1.0-4349 installed pretty darned easy on my
> Ron> system. Just follow the directions at
> Ron> http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux
>
> Ron> You'll have to exit out of X, first, though.
>
> Ron> Just this morning, I upgraded to v1.0-4363, using
> Ron> #nvidia-installer --update
>
> Ron> The whole thing is no harder than typing #apt-get update &&
> Ron> apt-get upgrade
>
> This is my experience:
>
> Acer TM 632 XC
> NVIDIA GeForce 2 GO 64MB
>
> The version 3123 of the driver works very well ( mplayer ... CPU < 1%)
>
> I have tried to install newer version.
> But:
> Each newer version freeze the PC when a server goes
> into sleep mode (I guess it is sleep) after a hour of waiting and
> not doing.
>
> So I had to find the proper version 3123.
> But I didn't find it on the nvidia web!
>
> My lucky is that the drivers were stored in my old backup.
>
> Judge it yourself.
What about totally de-installing 3123 before trying 4363? (Maybe you
did, but I can't tell from your text...)
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