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  From: Robyn Manning <robynman@dove.net.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
        Martin Sandiford <ms@mcdev.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:05:22 +1030

Re: 2.2.18 / nVidia Driver Weirdness

Hi

Have you tried XFree86 4.0.2 as it had some bug fixes.

Robyn

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:58, David Lloyd wrote:
> Martin!
>
> > I am not terribly impressed with the way that nVidia has approached the
> > issue of providing 3D/GLX drivers for Linux, although perhaps they do
> > deserve some kudos for doing this at all.  Unfortunately, it has been
> > some 4 months since the last release.  I guess that perhaps they feel
>
> I probably should mention that X does run noticably faster with these
> new drivers...so it's not all bad. It's just that I seem to have hit
> against a "optimised but buggy" vs "stable but slow" tradeoff...
>
> > I should mention that I also upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1 (from 3.3.6) at
> > the same time as installing the GLX drivers, so this may possibly be
> > part of the problem.
>
> It may be. My XFree86 4.0.1 using the nVidia drivers that ship with
> XFree86 4.0.1 and GLX worked fine before though...
>
> DL

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