Slack 7.1 and Nvidia driver problems!!

[bkurt]

I'm running slack 7.1 with kde2. I just tried installing the nvidia 0-95 drivers from the .tar.gz files from the nvidia website. Now it seems everything will just freeze up all of a sudden. Don't know if it was something with the mesa items or not. Anyone else had this problem? How did you get the nvidia drivers working in slack 7.1?? Thanks.

[TaeShadow]

When exactly does it freeze up? Any error messages?

Tae

[bkurt]

It usually freezes within 10 minutes or so. I'm usually online at the time, but I don't think that has anything to do with it. If I go back and comment out the load glx and change the nvidia back to nv it works fine so it's something along those lines. I think it's probably with the files I renamed but I thought was correct since it said on the Nvidia site that those files could cause problems.

[Avatar]

I have seen this before in Mandrake when usins a non-BX chipset. Usually, disabling AGP in the XF86Config file takes care of that. It lowers 3D gaming performance, but it stops lock ups.

[bkurt]

Hmm, I will have to try that. I do have a via chipset so that could be it. I 'll post back after trying some things out. I also found another website that goes into pretty good detail on getting opengl working in Slackware. I'll post that if it works too. Thanks again.