Re: install problem RH7.1/NVidia, sigh ...

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From: Don Tidrow (dtidrow++at++nvl.army.mil)
Date: 11/05/2001 17:19:39

Looks like all the older drivers are here:

ftp://209.213.197.10/XFree86_40

On 05-Nov-2001 Dan Christian wrote:
> I went through some of this and have seen more info on the list (check
> the archives for the last month or so).
>
> The newest NVida drivers work much better (1.0-1541), but only for
> single threaded mode. In multi-threaded mode, they hang. I was using
> a quadro2 pro on a dual processor SGI 330.
>
> I think people have gotten this working fully (multi-threaded), but I
> don't know what version of the drivers they were using. I also don't
> know where to find the older versions.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Saturday 03 November 2001 14:38, Shankar N Swamy wrote:
>> Hello Linux/Pf Gurus,
>>
>> It is that time again - to pay my dues to getting the
>> performer running after an update. I upgraded to
>> RedHat 7.1. I have a RIVA TNT2 Ultra card. This worked
>> fine with RedHat 6.2. With RedHat 7.1 here is the
>> symptom:
>>
>> When I run perfly, one of the following happens:
>>
>> 1. I am logged out of the system with the KDE login
>> screen back on the screen, OR, 2. nothing happens and
>> the performer window does not appear. If the second
>> one happens, and I kill that job and try running perfly
>> again, my machine gets locked up; I will have to do a
>> hardware reset.
>>
>> Install details:
>>
>> Performer 2.4.2-2
>> NVidia Drivers: 1.0-1251
>> Lesstif: 1999.01.28-1
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