[plug] What have I done wrong?

[Dean Holland]

The latest nVidia drivers (6106) should work properly with 2.6 kernels. 
I've got them installed on this machine, FC2 with a Fedora 2.6.6 kernel. 
  The previous version (5336) had a problem with the Fedora Core 2 
standard kernels due to the use of 4K stack size instead of 8K. I'm not 
too sure what option Mandrake chose in their kernel but it could be the 
same thing.

Dean

Craig Ringer wrote:
> Lee Jamieson wrote:
> 
>> I then rebooted and tried the OpenGL screensavers, which worked, but 
>> the machine hung - quite severely, it took a push of the reset button 
>> to get back.
> 
> 
> Did it hang immediately or after a little while? Is your video card 
> adequately cooled? (I've seen crash / lockup problems caused by video 
> card overheating, especially with 3D).
> 
> Was there a kernel panic (flashing keyboard LEDs will indicate this) or 
> did it just lock up? Did/does CTL-ALT-Backspace kill the X server when 
> it's locked up?
> 
>> Now, those "OpenGl" screensavers do not work - it is as if I had gone 
>> back before my first attempt at installing.
> 
> 
> That's strange. What is the output of
>     glxinfo | egrep '(direct rendering|vendor)'
> ?
> 
>> I'm using Mandrake 10 Official, 2.6.6
> 
> 
> I don't know how well the NVidia drivers work with 2.6 kernels yet. They 
> certainly haven't had the same level of testing as with 2.4 kernels. 
> They worked when I tried them out on 2.6.0 even though I had to patch 
> the drivers to get them to build (it was before NVidia came out with 2.6 
> support), but I wouldn't be too surprised if they hadn't worked all the 
> kinks out yet. Anybody here using them on 2.6?
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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