Nvdia module

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 3/6/07, Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter.garcia at upf.edu> wrote:
> * Lonni J Friedman [06/03/07 16:27]:
> > 1.0-8756 is very old (over a year), and is no longer supported.  You
> > should be using 1.0-9746, and if you need further assistance see here:
> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678
> >
>
> I'm not usuing that one, since as I said it didn't get built and it
> gives an error at bootup. The one that I'm actually using is
> (according to "dmesg"):
>
> NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8776
>
> still quite old I believe. I'll try to update but would like to have
> some reassurance that I can at least revert to the current situation
> and not be left without xwindows for two days.

Yes, 1.0-8776 is also quite old, and also unsupported.  I guess I
don't understand why you can't fall back to using the 'nv' X driver if
the 'nvidia' X driver isn't working?


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