Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-29 Thread James Simmons
> I've never seen such thing as code without bugs. In my experience, > the NVIDIA drivers are by far the most complete and solid 3D drivers > under Linux. I have to agree. Opensource or not the NVIDIA drivers are the best I have seen as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Android" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've never seen such thing as code without bugs. In my experience, > > > the NVIDIA drivers are by far the most complete and solid 3D drivers > > > under Linux. > > > > You are welcome to your opinion. I've got this great bridge to sell you > too > >

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-29 Thread Android
> > I've never seen such thing as code without bugs. In my experience, > > the NVIDIA drivers are by far the most complete and solid 3D drivers > > under Linux. > > You are welcome to your opinion. I've got this great bridge to sell you too The most stable of all video drivers under Linux has to

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-29 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Kiril Vidimce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I've never seen such thing as code without bugs. In my experience, > > > the NVIDIA drivers are by far the most complete and solid 3D drivers > > > under Linux. > > > > You are welcome to your opinion. I've g

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Kiril Vidimce
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I've never seen such thing as code without bugs. In my experience, > > the NVIDIA drivers are by far the most complete and solid 3D drivers > > under Linux. > > You are welcome to your opinion. I've got this great bridge to sell you too BTW, in case this

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Kiril Vidimce
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I've never seen such thing as code without bugs. In my experience, > > the NVIDIA drivers are by far the most complete and solid 3D drivers > > under Linux. > > You are welcome to your opinion. I've got this great bridge to sell you too I don't see the n

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Alan Cox
> I've never seen such thing as code without bugs. In my experience, > the NVIDIA drivers are by far the most complete and solid 3D drivers > under Linux. You are welcome to your opinion. I've got this great bridge to sell you too - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Kiril Vidimce
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your > > > filesystems broken. > > > > Not true. It works for us with no problems on a number of SMP boxes > > running 2.2.{14,16}. I don't k

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Alan Cox
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your > > filesystems broken. > > Not true. It works for us with no problems on a number of SMP boxes > running 2.2.{14,16}. I don't know about 2.4.x. Dan is not the only one to repo

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Kiril Vidimce
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your > filesystems broken. Not true. It works for us with no problems on a number of SMP boxes running 2.2.{14,16}. I don't know about 2.4.x. KV -- ___

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:29:04 Dan Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:39:56 Dan Hollis wrote: > > > Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your > > > filesystems broken. > > Not so broken. I use it under SMP 2.2.18-p

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:39:56 Dan Hollis wrote: > > Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your > > filesystems broken. > Not so broken. I use it under SMP 2.2.18-pre23 and works fine. Try unreal tournament. Locks up hard

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:39:56 Dan Hollis wrote: > > Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your > filesystems broken. > Not so broken. I use it under SMP 2.2.18-pre23 and works fine. But under 2.4 hangs. So I think it is something that changed between 2.2 and 2.4 (

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Thanks to some nice people in #NVIDIA I found what seems to be a > > solution; compile with processor type as "K6". No segfaults, lost > > terminfo or disabled consoles. > > So are there issues with the K7 processor code? Bleh, never mind, I have > > no ide

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Petter Sundlöf
Alan Cox wrote: > The K7 optimisations are not used for I/O space accessess. Or shouldnt be, > but the nvidia code is unreadable so they may have done so OK. I believe at least one of the NVIDIA developers read this list, so hopefully they can look at what can be done on their side. But seeing as

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Alan Cox
> Thanks to some nice people in #NVIDIA I found what seems to be a > solution; compile with processor type as "K6". No segfaults, lost > terminfo or disabled consoles. > > So are there issues with the K7 processor code? Bleh, never mind, I have > no idea what I am talking about. The K7 optimisat

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Petter Sundlöf
Thanks to some nice people in #NVIDIA I found what seems to be a solution; compile with processor type as "K6". No segfaults, lost terminfo or disabled consoles. So are there issues with the K7 processor code? Bleh, never mind, I have no idea what I am talking about. Original bug report: http://