kernel 2.6.9 and the nvidia video driver

[Net Llama!]

On 10/23/2004 07:19 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> Apart from the cd burning problem (cdrecord won't work for normal users, 
> see other recent threads on this list) which still continues for me 
> after upgrading to 2.6.9, I experienced a new one: I can't install the 
> nvidia video driver any longer. After some googling this turned out to 
> be a known issue:
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4022
> 
> I didn't want to apply the proposed kernel patches, but I found another 
> "solution":
> http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?2004/09/21/3-patched-nvidia-drivers
> 
> which, alas, didn't work for me as well. So I went back to the xorg 
> driver and wait until nvidia.com offers a new one.

You're doing better than I am.  I've *never* been able to use the nvidia 
driver with any 2.6.x kernel version.  My GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x always 
works for about 5 seconds, and then X locks up, and there's a PCI bus 
error in the log.  The x.org driver works flawlessly.


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