kernel 2.6.9 and the nvidia video driver

[Ken Moffat]

Net Llama! wrote:

> 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.
>
>

fyi:
I'm running debian versions/offshoots (debian 3.0, ubuntu, mepis) and I 
have had no problem installing the nvidia drivers from .debs,. The 
kernel is 2.6.8.1 in ubuntu, and 2.6.7 in the others, I believe.