nvidia nx7600 problems

[Damien Hull]

I put the Ubuntu CD in and booted that (live). I opened up an X term and 
did some shaking. The system locked up. Found a copy of puppy Linux and 
booted that ( live CD ). I opened up some applications and did some 
shaking of the windows. No problems.

Looking at the puppy Linux xorg file I found that they use the nv 
driver. I don't know why Ubuntu crashed and puppy keeps running. I'll 
get the nvidia driver from the website and install that. Now I need to 
figure out what I need to uninstall and where to get the kernel sources 
from.

I just want to play Battlefield 1942. Oh, and having a 3D desktop would 
be nice.


I should mention that my main workstation has an nvidia card and is 
using the nvidia driver. It works just fine. It's an older AGP card. Not 
sure what model. This makes me think I have a hardware problem with the 
other system.

More testing is needed.

John Dangler wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:25 +0100, SteVe Cook wrote:
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>> Damien Hull wrote:
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>>> Here's what I have.
>>>
>>>    1. Motherboard = nvidia geforce 6100
>>>    2. 1gig ram
>>>    3. nvidia nx7600 video card
>>>    4. Ubuntu Dapper ( updated )
>>>
>>> When I put the card in everything seemed fine. I used esyubuntu to 
>>> install the nvidia drivers. That's when the problems started. When using 
>>> the nvidia driver X doesn't work properly. If I shake a window to much 
>>> it turns into big pixels and then small ones. You can't see what's in 
>>> the window. Sometimes the whole system locks up.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else having problems with the nvidia driver?
>>>
>>>       
>> Not when installed with aptitude, but I did have problems when installed 
>> with easyubuntu.
>> Try unistalling the nvidia packages and installing them again with aptitude.
>> This was with a MX400 card so it may not solve your problem
>>
>> SteVe
>>     
> I got the driver sources for my nvidia GeForce 5200 from nvidia,
> compiled the module, installed it, and got my desktop back.  easyubuntu
> is worthless imo, and the aptitude drivers were pretty back-dated.
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