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From: Jan Schlesner <schlesner@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 12:28:30PM -0700, walt wrote:
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >I have an ASUS 4PS8X and whether I put in a Riva TNT2 or the GeForce2MX400
> >the system does a very unfriendly cold boot as soon as X is started
> >and the nvidia.ko module gets loaded and initialized.
> 
> Have you tried Maxime Henrion's nvidia patches?
> 
> http://mu.org/~mux/patches/nvidia.patch
> 
> The original code from nvidia will no longer run on -CURRENT
> without them.

I have tried to install the nvidia dirver by using the x11/nvidia-driver
port. I have the same problem. Are the patches in the port the patches
from Maxime Henrion? I think so. I have noticed that sometimes the
nvidia driver works, but at the moment I have not enough time to find
out, on which conditions it works and on which it doesn't work. 

Jan
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