I'm running woody and I'm using the Nvidia driver from the Nvidia site (not currently using the debian package).
I have two questions: Font selection kills my video: In any application that allows the selection of fonts (running under any window/session manager), selecting fonts often crashes X -- well it probably is the Nvidia driver as the screen goes black with random colors scattered around. Sometimes it will recover if I kill X (ctrl-alt-backspace), but most of the time I have to ssh in and reboot. It really looks like semi-random data was written to the video buffer. I run gdm, and one time I guessed I was back at the login screen by the way it was accessing disk when I typed on the keyboard. ssh'ing in and killing X doesn't reset the video -- I've only found that rebooting works. Anyone seen this? Second, although the debian Nvidia package (for testing) is not the most current driver available, I'm wondering if I should use the debian package instead of installing the package from the nvidia site, and if so, why. One thing I don't understand is what to do when building a new kernel. Is there a way to keep old kernel modules that are not part of the build process? A few times now I've built a new kernel and then forgot to move the nvidia driver to the new modules directory, and then X won't start. What's the correct way to do that, other than just remember to manually move the file? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
