feedback to NVidia [was: Nvidia Drivers]

[Paul L. Allen]

Greg Trounson wrote:
> Greg Trounson wrote:
> 
> To bring things back on topic, I can confirm that the binary NVIDIA 5336 
> drivers install and run fine on a stock 2.6 kernel with CONFIG_REGPARM 
> turned off in Fedora Core 2.

Just clarifying here.  By a stock 2.6 kernel, do you mean a source
tarball from kernel.org?  That's a pain, but if it's what I have to
do, I'll do it.  I just joined the list this afternoon.  I bet there's
been some discussion that I missed.

I installed the Nvidia 5336 driver onto whatever kernel came with FC2
and it appeared to install OK.  But if I start X, the system locks up
hard.  I have to pull the battery to get it to let go.  The machine's
a Dell M60 with Quadro FX video hardware.  Since running the nVidia
installer, if I run the machine without X, I get frequent "Badness in
interruptible_sleep..." messages.

Fortunately, I have a functional RH9 setup alongside the now-broken
FC2 setup, so I can do things like send mail.  :-)

Paul Allen

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