Dimond Viper v550

[cameron]

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.

Thanks.

-Cam