NVIDIA Drivers and Test 3

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 06:58, Frederic de Villamil wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 22:19, Jerone Young wrote:
> > > The one on nvidia's website will not compile with 2.6.
> > > You have to get modified installer from here:
> > >
> > > http://www.minion.de/
> > >
> > >
> > > It works great for me...some stability issues, but
> > > Unreal 2k4 runs smoothly.
> > >
> >
> > I downloaded the 5336 driver referred to from the minon.de site. There
> > is something there saying this version from NVidia works with kernel
> > 2.6. Obviously, it doesn't, or I wouldn't be posting this... :)
> >
> > Can you specify which version of the driver works with FC2T3 (kernel
> > 2.6.5) and exactly which set of instructions you used to get it going?
> > Looks like driver version 5336 just kills the system at the kernel
> > level. NVnews says something about 4K Stacks support.
> >
> > The minion.de site has patches for a driver version 5341, but I can't
> > find the original for that one on the NVidia site.
> >
> > Help... My kids want to play Tux Racer and I don't feel like going out
> > to buy an ATI card just for that.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> 
> Hi,
> I've  been using  2.6 kernel  since 2.6.0  with the  commercial nvidia
> driver. It  works perfectly  with kernels prior  to 2.6.3  (2.6.1 from
> FC2T1).

Thanks, but that doesn't help with a stock version of FC2T3. It's using
kernel 2.6.5. Has anyone gotten anything beyond 2.6.3 to work, and in
particular, has anyone gotten this to work with a fresh install of FC2T3
using kernel 2.6.5?

Cheers,

Chris


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