alternate xf86config

[Net Llama!]

On 01/02/2005 11:42 AM, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Looks like this is the Nvidia Club year .....
> 
> I have 2.6.10 and the latest from nVidia locks up as well.
> 
> But, believe it or not, 5.3 backwards works ok.
> 
> You could try an older version.

I've tried every version that existed going back 7 months.  Same problem 
  for all of them.

> 
> For the time being I am running JUST the nv stock driver.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas on enabling 3d with nv driver ?

You can't.  Only the nvidia version supports 3D.

> 
> Wade Barocsi wrote:
> 
>> Hi, and Happy New Year,
>>
>> I just jumped to the modern era with a 2.6 series kernel.
>> Libranet is a bit slow releasing, so I upgraded to
>> a mix of libranet and debian"unstable".
>>
>> The Nvidia driver (for 3d acceleration) locks up.
>> I used the newest version and nvidia's installer, but can't seem
>> to get it to work.
>>
>> I've given up (for now) on 3d with 2.6.7-1,
>> How can I have 2 different configurations for xf86config-4 ?
>> I'm using grub, perhaps some boot time voodo? or some other way
>> to swich between "nv" and "nvidia" drivers between 2 kernels.
>>
>> My son is a big tuxracer fan, so 3D becomes important.


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