Nvidia Driver 7167

[Ankur Jain]

I am not using much old AMD processor, it's an athlon xp 1900+

I was just going through the doc Anduin mentioned, I just wanted to
know, if it was necessary to have kernel source on the system to have
the drivers installed?

I dont have the kernel source installed on my system, could it be
because of that?



On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:43:24 +0000, D. D. Brierton <darren at dzr-web.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 12:31 -0500, Anduin Withers wrote:
> > > Hi, I installed nvidia driver 7167 downloaded from nvidia's site, and
> > > installed it as per instructions on fedorafaq.org
> > >
> > > I can load the nvidia module, but X freezes whenever I try to start it.
> >
> > Two things you might try: disable RenderAccel (if you enabled it, I had it
> > enabled on a machine and it worked prior to 7167, with 7167 it locked), you
> > might also try playing with the NvAGP setting (try 0). (info on these is in
> > /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README).
> >
> > There are also two patches to 7167, here:
> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=47405
> >
> > I've seen one report where RenderAccel worked post-patch (I haven't run
> > these patches with RenderAccel myself as 7167 seems more "crashy" just in
> > general for me so I've stepped back to 6629).
> >
> > Also rpm.livna.org has 7167 as an RPM in testing currently (just an
> > alternative install mechanism).
> 
> It's not just an alternative mechanism. I believe the RPMs include the
> patches you mention.
> 
> The only other issue I've come across is a rare and to my knowledge
> unresolved problem with the Linux NVIDIA drivers and some older AMD
> processors. It may not be the processors themselves but the chipset on
> the motherboard. I've seen this with a friends old machine (I'm afraid I
> can't remember what the processor or the chipset were now). The linux
> drivers would install fine, but the minute X was started the whole
> machine would completely lock, and would have to be reset. After a lot
> of googling I found reports (only a very few) of others with exactly the
> same problem. I never found a solution.
> 
> Best, Darren
> 
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