Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Andreas Weber <aendu@worldwideweber.ch> wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Slow for what purposes? 3D graphics? Real-time animated games?
>> I don't do either of those things. I mainly use X for web browsing.
>> I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire.
>> Is the proprietary Nvidia driver really going to make a dramatic improvement
>> for things like that?
>
> Actually it's impressive to see users of other OSs turn their eyes round
> when they see you changing the active window with Cover switch or doing
> a desktop change when the cube turns. ;-)
>
> If you like 3D stuff, you'll get it with the Nvidia driver. But I see
> exactly what you're saying. You'll see no difference when you code in vi.
>
> Could it be that the problems of the Nvidia driver not working have
> their reason in a non working xorg.conf file? What is it's content? As
> the driver installer suggest his own version, and from my experience
> this works extremely well (screen, mouse with all buttons &c.), this
> could also be the source of the problem AFAICS.
I always let the nvidia installer replace my xorg.conf, so that's not
the problem in my case. I had suspected the headers against which I
was compiling, but I tried both the headers package and the configured
source and had the same problem, namely the Nvidia splash screen
appearing for a few seconds (meaning that the driver is working?) and
then the server crashing. Maybe there's something hanging around on
my system that's interfering, but I don't know what. Anyway, it's
working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia
installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm happy for now!
Patrick
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