nvidia binary drivers no longer work

Doug Rabson dfr at nlsystems.com
Tue Aug 3 00:47:17 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:12, Mayo Jordanov wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 01:38, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 August 2004 19:45, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > > After today's cvsup the system freezes when I try to start X
> > > using the nvidia binary driver. The nv driver still works.
> > >
> > > ~1 week old kernel doesn't have this problem.
> >
> > If you can be patient, there will be a new release of the nvidia
> > binary driver fairly soon (which also supports libpthread and
> > libthr).
>
> Do you have any idea if it has/will have support for the 5700
> chipset?

I have no reason to think otherwise. It should support all the chipsets 
that the linux driver supports (since its the same code).

>
> Thanks for the great work,

Most of the thanks should go to the guys at NVidia - I'm just helping 
out with the threading magic.


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