[GRLUG] NVidia binaries

[Chris Lamrock]

Hey Zach,

I had tons of problems with the Nvidia drivers and the 2.6x Kernel.  Ubuntu 
locked up occasionally and I couldn't run my laptop for more than 1/2 hour 
before it would lock hard.

Sooo I installed Debian - it ran fine on the 2.4x kernel - when I upgraded 
to 2.6x - the locks came back.  I did a bunch of googling (2or days) and 
finally pieced together  some compile options I had to set to get the 
2.6.11.x kernel working with Nvidia - which it does now.

I'm not sure if this is a similar problem or not - but it sure was annoying. 
Nvidia has a pretty good tech forum that has quite a bit of info on linux 
and the Nvidia driver... 
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14


Good Luck!




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zach Dennis" <zdennis at mktec.com>
To: "Grand Rapids Linux User Group - Mailing List" 
<grlug at grandrapids-lug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:00 AM
Subject: [GRLUG] NVidia binaries


>I run nvidia cards at home and at work. I run Ubuntu Breezy at home and
> at work to.
>
> I don't reboot very often, but when I do there is this annoying problem
> I face. I have to recompile the drivers each and every time!
>
> If I dont recompile after every reboot X hangs and although ssh works,
> you can't do anything through a monitor. I am using nvidia 1.0-7676
> drivers. This isn't a huge deal because it takes about 15 seconds to do,
> but it is annoying.
>
> I run different video cards at home and at work, so I dont think the
> card to be the problem. any ideas ?
>
> Zach
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