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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Am now experiencing random lockups...
From:       obennett <obennett () hartford ! edu>
Date:       2003-03-09 21:43:55
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On Sunday 09 March 2003 2:21 pm, N Smethurst wrote:
> Out of interest, what kind of 3D performance difference are you guys
> getting between the XFree and the Nvidia drivers? Since installing rc2 I
> have been using the Xfree drivers and it's like someone has taken my
> geforce 4 out and replaced it with an old S3 or something.

I don't think XFree drivers provide 3d acceleration. if they do i wouldn't mind using them.

> Le Dimanche 9 Mars 2003 20:12, Buchan Milne a écrit :
> > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, jokerman64 wrote:
> > > > (P.S. could you set Kmail 1.5 to wrap lines?)
> > >
> > > true, it is want as opposed to need but the way to fix a problem is
> > > not to avoid (as I so often do) but to go looking for a solution. And
> > > in any case I'm not going to sacrifice opengl support for stabilty on
> > > cooker. The whole point is to break stuff and find out why (or report
> > > it so that someone else can).
> >
> >
> > I was not meaning to do away with OpenGL forever, just to try and build
> > yuor rpm while running with the nv driver (it might be best to reboot
> > too to ensure that the loading of the NVidia driver does not affect it,
> > you may need to remove it from your /etc/modules also) so that we can
> > either eliminate nvidia as the cuplrit, or confirm that it is. If it is,
> > you could then try a different release of the drivers, or on a different
> > kernel.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Buchan
I actually got a fix for this over at #plf so everything is honkey dorey. :)
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		-- Paul Bourget



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