Re: 2 problems after sid update (nvidia and kde menus)
Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> Daniel Teichert wrote:
>>
>> > And I heard Haim Ashkenazi exclaim:
>> >> 1. my nvidia drivers take a very long time to load (about 30 seconds),
>> >> and every time I switch from X to console and back it takes about 15
>> >> seconds to load. I thought it was a memory/CPU issue but running top
>> >> didn't show heavy load while switching. I run the latest
>> >> nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx binaries with kernel 2.4.24.
>> >
>> > Not very helpful, perhaps, but I had this same problem and compiled
>> > 2.6.3 with the kernel modules as per the instructions found here:
>> >
>> > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
>> I can't use 2.6 since I'm using vmware, and I don't think it supports
>> kernel 2.6.
>
> Haim,
>
> If you want to run kernel 2.6, you can still run vmware:
>
> - Install vmware as usual, but don't run vmware-config.pl.
> - Go to ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/ and grab the latest vmware-
> any-any-update*.tar.gz.
> - Unpack it, and run ./runme.pl.
>
> runme.pl will patch your copy of vmware to work with kernel 2.6, then
> run vmware-config.pl. If you need to reconfigure vmware in the future,
> there's no need to rerun runme.pl; just run vmware-config.pl.
thanx, I'll give it a try
>
> If you want to stick with kernel 2.4, you can still follow the
> instructions at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-
> nVidia/installation.html. They work for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. I don't
> know if that will solve your problem, but it might.
if vmware with 2.6 I don't see any other reason to stay with 2.4.
>
> Good luck,
> Andrew.
thanx
--
Haim
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