nvidia driver problems

Kristian Hermansen khermansen at ht-technology.com
Sun Jan 9 05:16:59 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 04:36 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> It's probably an upstream nVidia bug, fixed in 6629 (which is available
> in Hoary, our development tree).  Unfortunately there's nothing we can
> do about these sort of bugs (including the one where the nv one doesn't
> know much at all about LVDS panels), due to the binary-only nature of
> the nVidia drivers.

I'm pretty sure that the nv driver is open source.  The nvidia driver,
however, is the closed source driver you are talking about.  Am I wrong?

> Installing the 6629 driver from nvidia.com should work for you.

I will try this next...thanks
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Kristian Hermansen <khermansen at ht-technology.com>





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