nvidia sucks again ! Was recent wine crashes fc6 sessions
Kim Lux
lux at diesel-research.com
Sat Dec 9 23:34:23 UTC 2006
I found the problem ! The problem is that the nvidia 9629 driver
crashes when wine is used. Its discussed here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2521068
To fix this, I installed nvida driver 8776 thus uninstalling driver
9629.
This is yet another example of how NVIDIA's driver sucks.
I spent about 2 hours troubleshooting thinking the problem lied in
sreccvt and wine !
Once I had an inkling that it was nvidia, I decided to revert back to an
older version of the driver. And it fixed the problem.
Thanks, Nvidia, for wasting another 3 hours of my life !
Oh, and by the way...
1) one cannot be running X when one builds the nvidia driver.
(Previously someone told me I didn't have to build nvidia drivers from
the command line, I could run the nvidia driver included with the kernel
and then I could build them from my X session. That is wrong.)
2) Livna doesn't have version 8776 of the driver for download. Another
time when Livna was NOT a solution to the Nvidia driver problem. (I DO
support livna's efforts, I am not knocking them.)
3) Yes livna has other versions of the nvidia driver, ie 9631, but its
BETA as far as I can tell. I don't care to debug any more of nvidia's
new drivers !
4) And lest anyone say that I am the only one frustrated with the Nvidia
driver situation, the ODSL survey concluded "The top desktop priorities
that users want developers to work on are, in order of importance:
open-source drivers, cross-distribution Linux desktop standards, and
improved wireless support."
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6598704165.html
/rant off
Don't get me wrong ! I still love Fedora and Linux. I just hate this
nvidia driver situation because it has caused me so much grief over the
years and cost me so much time. Like today, for instance !
Out.
--
Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
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