Still can't get the Nvidia driver to work

[D. D. Brierton]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:25, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic -
Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote:

> Turns out that neither the above  or swiching off ACPI makes any 
> difference.  Still hangs. Need to login via telnet and restore the 
> xorg.conf file. I'll go look in the nvidia forums to see if I can find 
> anything there.

I'm sorry I haven't been closely following this thread. Do you have an
AMD processor? A friend of mine has a machine with an oldish AMD CPU
(can't remember exactly what) and an NVidia graphics chip. Every time he
has tried to install the NVidia binary-only drivers he's had exactly the
same thing happen -- the whole machine lock solid when X starts. After a
lot of googling it turned out to be a fiarly oft-reported but little
understood problem with the kernel, the nvidia driver and AMD, and I
found no solutions. If you do have an AMD processor I'm afraid to say
that you might be out of luck using the nvidia driver.

Best, Darren

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