Dimond Viper v550

[Alexandre Teixeira]

Hi members of the list,

> Hi,
> 
> cameron wrote:
> > I am having no end of problems with this device.
> > 
> > Output from lspci:
> >    0000:00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIVA 
> > TNT] (rev 04)
> > 
> > Relevant device section:
> >    Section "Device"
> >        Identifier  "NVIDIA_Riva_TNT"
> >        Driver      "nvidia"
> >        #Driver      "nv"
> >        BusID       "0:15:0"
> >    EndSection
> > 
> > If I use the nv driver then X will hang. I found a reference the nvidia 
> > proprietary driver and installed it and now my display works and it does 
> > not hang but it is all fragmented and doesn't refresh properly. The task 
> > bar doesn't display at all and when I move a window I get window 
> > 'pieces' left all over the place. It is quite unusable.
> > 
> > If anyone has any ideas/references/etc I would really appreciate it.
I have one problem similar of your case.
Look this URL: http://oraculo.insignesoftware.com/current/Six-
System/Six-2.0/SRPMS/

If your package system is RPM change NVIDIA.spec of IPAK_ to RPM_, in my
case I have solution problem.


> 
> I can confirm both. I have not yet reported it because I wanted to debug 
> it first, ... and thought the Nvidia binary driver problem might be due 
> to an hevily optimized custom build ...
> 
> But now that you mention it, I think it is a general problem.
> 
> I used the vanilla X.org 6.8.1 release, selfbuilt and optimized entirely 
> for pentium-mmx w/ gcc-3.4.3.
> 
> Yours,
> 
>    René Rebe - T2 Project <http://www.t2-project.org>
> 

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Alexandre Teixeira <ateixeira at insignesoftware.com>
Insigne Free Software do Brasil