On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Darragh Bailey <felix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:32:59AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: >> I would do more testing to see verify this further but my fan on my >> nVidia 4200 ti card has broken and for some unknown reason the $30 >> 7200GS replacement will not work with the nvidia binary driver (xorg >> consumes 100% cpu) and the nv driver is way too slow to use in opengl. > > Did you switch from the legacy driver to the newer one when you swapped > in the new card? > Both (actually many driver versions) had the same problem. There was a actually bugcheck in the nvidia driver. I then upgraded xorg to 1.5.2 and the problem remained. In a few months I will be replacing the machine so I am not to worried about this. I did attempt to get nouveau working http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ but that led to a compile error that I could not explain: /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-99999999/work/drm/linux-core/nouveau_state.c:756:73: error: macro "save_context" passed 1 arguments, but takes just 0 /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-99999999/work/drm/linux-core/nouveau_state.c:757:74: error: macro "save_context" passed 1 arguments, but takes just 0 the problem is that save_context is not a macro it is actually a function that takes 1 parameter. Not sure if my kernel headers are causing this or what. And since this machine must be up 24/7 (mythtv + vps cvs/svn host) I could not spend much time debugging. BTW, it was 128MB MSI NX6200AX and not a ASUS 256MB 7200GS. I got that confused. I buy the 7200GS at work for PCI-E systems and 6200 models for AGP systems. I guess since I am getting offtopic for the wine list I should end here. Thanks for the suggestion. John
