nvidia binary drivers no longer work

[Doug Rabson]

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:40, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:42, 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'd imagine it would be of a similar vintage to the latest Linux
> driver, so it should support newer cards like that.
>
> The linux driver is at 61.06, the win32 driver 61.77. The notes for
> the linux driver say it adds support for the 6800, so I imagine the
> 5700 is supported.

The pre-release drivers I've been using are in the 61.xx series.