On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:45, Alan Chandler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I loaded the latest drivers from the NVIDIA web site and tried them and they > kept the xserver from starting. Fortunately I kept the old version (1251) > and they worked fine so I reverted. Debian Unstable has packaged up versions > of (I think 1512) and I am almost certain I had used them successfully at one > stage. Well, as so often it may be just a single option or missing dep; maybe I just had luck, cos all versions from the 1.0 driver series from nvidia.com worked just fine on my machines (woody w/ GeForce DDR and sid w/ GeForce 2 Go).
On The other hand (but why works the debian packaged one?) it may be due to some kernel settings (if self-baked); do not know their names. I heard of some people that got their nvidia modules only to work when they DISABLED framebuffer support in their kernel. And: maybe you have not set the DGA and extmod options set in XF86Config.4 just my two cents, Timo
