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  From: John Davey <john@davey.net.au>
  To  : <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:36:13 +1030

RE: 2.2.18 / nVidia Driver Weirdness

To all who may be interested

released 17/1/2001 New 0.9-6 NVIDIA Drivers

http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html


John



> -----Original Message-----
> From: lloy0076@rebel.net.au [mailto:lloy0076@rebel.net.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2001 4:34 pm
> To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: 2.2.18 / nVidia Driver Weirdness
>
>
>
> 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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