On Friday 01 June 2001 10:27, Simon Naish wrote:
> Last night I decided to sort it out and get the NVidia drivers running on
> my machine.
>
> All went well, I installed from tar zips made the Kernel driver and the
> OpenGL lib no problem. Sat back astonished at the positively outrageous
> speed of gltron and the ultra smooth spectacle of tuxracer. 8^)
>
> Fired it up this morning to have a quick go before work and ... It locked
> up going into anything(?) =-{
>
> I can get gears to work, once, then it fails as does everything else. Could
> it be a 'lock'file somewhere, or display settings of some kind - I am
> running my own modeline in XF86Config-4 to get the best out of the monitor.
>
> Also the xlog does seem to be discarding ALOT of resolutions, but this
> doesn't really explain why it worked fine yesterday and not now.
>
> I did have a crash and total lock up both with gltron and open space last
> night but on rebooting everything did still work...
>
> Please help, this is just one more in a huge string of problems I seem to
> have waded through with Mandrake 8.0 .
>
> cheers si
Which NVIDIA drivers? The 1.0 version seem to segfault if you come up in
runlevel 5 but work fine from a startx. The older version seems to work well
either way.
Civileme
