On Monday June 11 2007 10:51:20 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > Looks to me like its doing as you/I requested, Claude. Direct Rendering > says yes, and gives two very long lists of its abilities. > Well, guess what - I just tried my nvidia server settings gui again, and now it's working - now, I haven't done diddly-squat to this machine - I just got home! > >I'm using the latest NVIDIA driver from freshrpms with the dkms package > >installed - it works great for me and glxgears gives me good results and > >google earth works flawlessly, but, when I press that option in the > >configuration gui, my x server immediately shuts down and returns me to a > >login screen -- very strange. > > If that dkms package is a week old, its probably based on the beta version > of this release which was numbered 100.14.06, and that ones favorite trick > was crashing x. This one seems bulletproof. Its (100.14.09) downloadable > from the nvidia site, no questions asked. > > I understand there were some gimp problems with the .06 version, > googleearth, celestia, and stellarium would all reset X, which I guess is > another clue that it's the .06 issue. I'm not sure how to tell which driver ver I'm using - there's nothing that corresponds to those numbers in any of the windows of that configuration utility -- Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc. Leesburg, VA
