Re: nVidia driver incompatible

[Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:52 PM 6/19/2001 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this is just a test release, but you should
> know that the nVidia driver available from the nVidia
> website doesn't work when installed on the Redhat
> 7.1-XFS system.
> I installed using the Redhat 7.1-XFS CD and everything
> worked fine (including the XFree86 default nv driver)
> but when I installed the accelerated nVidia driver my
> screen just blanks over and over again. I wish I could
> give you more information, but I had to have my
> machine back up so I reinstalled the stock Redhat
> system. I would have stuck with the default nv driver
> but the accelerated driver from nVidia makes a HUGE
> difference in performance.
i'm skeptical.  i'm running 2.4.6-pre3 with RH7.1 and the nvidia driver i 
got off their website.  works fine.  are you sure you have backing store set?