Another extremely urgent nVidia driver testing request

Vegar Nilsen vegar.nilsen at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 17:59:18 CDT 2005


Daniel Stone <daniel <at> fooishbar.org> writes:

> 
> Hi all,
> nVidia have released another version of their driver (1.0.7174) as an
> errata release to 1.0.7167 with very few changes.  We're hopefully
> going to pick this one up for Hoary, but as with 7167, it needs a fair
> bit of testing.  If anyone with an nVidia card could please add this
> to their sources list:
> deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/l-r-m/ i386/
> for i386 users, or:
> deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/l-r-m/ amd64/
> for amd64 users, and run a dist-upgrade (or 'Smart Upgrade'), reboot,
> and let me know whether it worked or failed, I would be very, very
> much obliged.  No 'yeah, works for me', or 'it didn't start' report
> is too dull: if this is to go into Hoary, we need to test the pants
> off it.

Worked fine for me.

vegar$greed [~] grep -i nvidia /var/log/Xorg.0.log |more
(**) |   |-->Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] rev 161, Mem @
0xfd000000/24, 0xf0000000/27, BIOS @ 0xfea00000/17
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA X Driver  1.0-7174  Tue Mar 22 06:48:37 PST 2005
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found

This is on a Pentium 4 machine, with an AGP card.

Vegar.




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