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Re: Livna nVidia problems...



On 6/22/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I guess this is what makes me feel lucky. I do not use the livna nvidia
> drivers, primarily because they don't keep up with the kernel version if you
> build your own, which I do.
>
> So I check the nvidia site everytime I happen to think about it and download
> their latest *.run installer.  So I can build a new kernel, reboot to my
> normal runlevel 3 login, then "sh ./N[tab][enter]" (if one of them is all
> there is in /root) answer a few ncurses yes/no's, and its installed.  Yeah,
> its a pita & takes about 2 minutes.  But guess what folks, it Just Works(TM)

But have NVidia stopped doing that thing where they mucked up other
aspects of Xorg to suit themselves?  That stung me badly when I had to
pull out a NVidia card to try another one, and Xorg was buggered.

???


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