nvidia problems again....

[Robin Laing]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 03:09, dballester at kernpharma.com wrote:
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>>Well, for a sysadmin or an advanceduserwithtimetowaste it's fine, but
>>if I wanna expand the GNU/Linux in my company, I must convince my
>>boss. And i can't say him: 'Well, may be 3 times monthly a new and
>>more advanced kernel can be automatically installed for you. Then,
>>after reboot, your screen will be flickering for a while, wait for 5
>>minutes aprox and then a message saying that X server could not be
>>started will be appear. Always answer 'NO' to all messages or your X
>>configuration may change, making PROBABLY
>>your X server refuse to start, or at least start as supposed. After
>>all messages as been answered, log in a console as root. Go, using
>>command line, to access the file where the nvidia is and execute it (
>>./ or path, etc... ). -Here explain nvidia installer procedure,
>>message and sense- After that, try to start your X server executing
>>startx, if all goes well, log out and start multiuser X mode ( telinit
>>5 ). If something goes wrong, stop your work and try to solve the
>>problem, if problem persist, call me.
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>     I understand the feeling.  I had some trouble with Nvidia and the
> new kernels for a while.
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>     But isn't it odd that, with all the technical explanation above that
> they _don't_ want, that they'll accept "It's broken and nobody knows how
> to fix it without a million-dollar support contract from Microsoft" is
> an acceptable alternative?
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>     What you have to do is get some hardware set up, test out what you
> want to do, and THEN roll out the changes when you're satisfied with the
> results. I'm about to start a business of my own with the same
> technique; it's worked everywhere I've worked before.  Nothing's
> guaranteed, ya know?
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I found that the RPM's didn't work for me either.

I don't do an auto kernel upgrade.  I manually install the kernel
(rpm -ivh kernel...) to give me a fall back.  I then install the 
NVidia driver and reboot.

Now I thought I read that NVidia is working on including the driver 
with the distros under their licencing agreement.
-- 
Robin Laing