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  From: Robyn Manning <robynman@dove.net.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:46:44 +1030

Re: 2.2.18 / nVidia Driver Weirdness

Hi David

I've just found a NVidia kernel driver for Kernel 2.4

http://www.darkrock.co.uk/nv

I've installed NVIDIA_kernel-0.9.5_kernel240pr.tar.gz and I've got XF4.0.2 
running in GL mode.

Robyn

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:33, David Lloyd wrote:
> Hmmm...
>
> I've decided that my recently downloaded, official nVidia drivers (for a
> Riva TNT2 Ultra) are causing my system to become less stable than it
> normally is. I suspect that it's speaking very closely to the kernel
> itself to the extent where a driver compiled against 2.2.17 won't work
> with Kernel 2.2.18 without a rebuild...
>
> In and of itself I don't this is particularly unusual, except there's
> some closed source OpenGLX drivers that I simply can't build and every
> now and then my system goes bust but only when I'm running X...
>
> Anyone experienced this?
>
> Dl

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