Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

[John Peter <john.peter@netcabo.pt>]

Paul Johnson wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
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> > I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that
> > occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X
> > wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia'
> > manually, and then it loads, but with an error:
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> > I've googled for it but only found some kernel mailing list entries which I
> > didn't understand. as a workaround I've added nvidia to '/etc/modules' but
> > I was wondering if this problem can be solved.
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> nVidia has actively demonstrated they don't care.  
>
> Go return that video card and exchange it for an ATI Radeon, for which
> there are better drivers, as well as open source drivers for the
> Radeon that Just Work, and work way better than nVidia's proprietary
> hack.
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I use the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run installer from NVidea and
just had to execute their instructions, by the letter and everything 
runs OK.

Paul, I don't have a personal experience with ATI Radeon video cards on
Linux, but I have been reading a lot of mails from peopple having problems
with it - this doesn't seem such a linear issue...

John