Subject: Re: NVidia drivers update
To: Quentin Garnier <netbsd-port-i386@quatriemek.com>
From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/04/2003 13:28:13
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 06:15:37PM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've updated my port. See http://cubidou.nerim.net, and download the
> tarball at http://cubidou.nerim.net/NVIDIA_NetBSD-1.0-3203.tar.bz2 .
> 
> This time, I added support for GLX binaries, but note that it is not
> complete (some applications don't work, and that include all Linux
> binaries), and eventually leads to a crash. There's a bug that prevents
> AGP memory to be freed, so be prepared to fsck your disks often when using
> GLX binaries.
> 
> But also note that you can happily play gltron for several hours, without
> sound though :)
> 
> The included README file should be clear enough for an easy installation,
> you're welcome to report me any imprecision or difficulty, either by mail
> or in #netbsd on freenode. You can also ask me for a custom kernel in case
> you don't want to patch your source tree.
> 
> I'll now focus mainly on a LKM version (and I'll give a try to a 1.6.1
> version).
> 

Does it still suffer the same problems as your last go-round? (ie, console
blanking when leaving X, total machine hang when trying to play
quake3arena-demo or heretic2-demo, etc?)

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