I got the drivers installed alright, and graphical speed is improved, but there are still some problems. This is with a GeForce4 Ti-4200, so obviously the card is able to handle pretty much anything I can throw at it.

Problem #1: Graphics pause briefly every couple of seconds, whether I'm in an OpenGL screensaver, TuxRacer, or anything that uses the graphics card steadily. Oddly, when I test a screensaver from the desktop config dialog (in KDE, btw), the graphics are completely smooth, but otherwise they are not.

Problem #2: Every once in a while, when I reboot my computer (not every time, but occaisionally), something seems to corrupt the installed drivers, X crashes, and I have to reinstall the drivers. This second problem isn't really a big problem, but it's annoying when it happens.

Hi there.

I've got exactly the same setup: Mandrake 10 with a Nvidia Ti-4200 card. Not surprisingly, I had the same trouble.

Problem 1:

- how much RAM do you have?
- do you have the latest driver?

As far as a solution to this, I'm not too sure at this time. I'll need a little more info.

Problem 2:

This little problem is a bug in Mandrake 10. It's actually a harddrake update problem. Find the file "/usr/share/harddrake/service_harddrake" and edit it (with vi or something). Go to row 24, col 103. You see the place that says "qw(NVdriver vidia.ko))" ? Add an "n" to the vidia.ko so it reads "qw(NVdriver nvidia.ko))". Save the file. Now, when you reboot, the changes you've made to XF86Config will remain!

Silly problem really. Hopefully it's been submitted as a bug by now.

Good luck.

Thanks for the reply.

The computer in question is the desktop in my signature, so it's 512MB RAM. The drivers are the latest ones on NVidia's website (1.0-5336), and the installation script doesn't find any newer ones when it checks.

Oddly enough, the file you mentioned doesn't contain anything resembling "qw(NVdriver vidia.ko)" anywhere in it...

I have the same problems on a box with mandrake 9.2 and the latest NVIDIA drivers.

It has the pauses, and the configuration loss on the XFconfig configuration.

I'try the fix on hardrake

thanks

my service_hardrake file does not contain the qw(NVdriver...

but

qw(vendor id subvendor subid)

instead...

Hmm. That's odd. Editing that file worked perfectly for me. Apparently I installed something (or didn't install something) at some point that you two didn't. I'm not sure where to start. Sorry my advice didn't work. :-(

I'm going to watch this thread to see what happens, though. I'm curious now.

Doesn't anyone have a clue about this? I hate bumping posts, but...

so i have a geforce 4 ti4400 and i don't have that problem. i have had that problem in the past but with the .6111 (i think) driver releases, its not been an issue....for me. now my wife's laptop has a geforce fx5200. very nice card for a laptop. but she has the same problem 2 as listed above. her screensavers and else work perfectly, but when she tries to login, the nvidia drivers bail.

i too will keep an eye on this thread. this could be handy.

Well, it has been a long time since I posted this thread, and I guess no one ever figured it out! Well, the problem has not been completely solved. The problem with corrupted driver files seems to have resolved itself (although I am now having a slightly different problem that I may post soon) somewhere in the process of changing to Mandrake 10.0 Official (from Community) and upgrading to the latest drivers (6111). The herky-jerky graphics have improved a lot; the pauses are much less noticable and no longer appear in anything except for the screen saver. Yes, that's right, TuxRacer and other games run fine (although I just discovered another weird thing that's happening there...another topic for later), the preview of the screen saver runs fine, but when an OpenGL screen saver runs normally (either due to an idle computer or after I lock the screen), I still see a very brief but perceptible pause every few seconds.

Anybody have any new clues on this old problem?

Thanks,
Doug

mmmph...just realized--my desktop, which was so new and up-to-date just a year and a half ago, no longer looks so impressive on paper...perfectly functional for me, but not so high-fiber anymore... :-(

Seems to be a universal problem with Mandrake and the Nvidia drivers. I had the same problem back with the Mandrake 9.x distros. Finally I decided to give Slackware 10.0 a try, and so far have not had any problems (at least none I didn't create myself! )