Andrew Schulman wrote: >> Daniel Teichert wrote: >> >> > And I heard Haim Ashkenazi exclaim: >> >> 1. my nvidia drivers take a very long time to load (about 30 seconds), >> >> and every time I switch from X to console and back it takes about 15 >> >> seconds to load. I thought it was a memory/CPU issue but running top >> >> didn't show heavy load while switching. I run the latest >> >> nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx binaries with kernel 2.4.24. >> > >> > Not very helpful, perhaps, but I had this same problem and compiled >> > 2.6.3 with the kernel modules as per the instructions found here: >> > >> > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html >> I can't use 2.6 since I'm using vmware, and I don't think it supports >> kernel 2.6. > > Haim, > > If you want to run kernel 2.6, you can still run vmware: > > - Install vmware as usual, but don't run vmware-config.pl. > - Go to ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/ and grab the latest vmware- > any-any-update*.tar.gz. > - Unpack it, and run ./runme.pl. > > runme.pl will patch your copy of vmware to work with kernel 2.6, then > run vmware-config.pl. If you need to reconfigure vmware in the future, > there's no need to rerun runme.pl; just run vmware-config.pl. thanx, I'll give it a try
> > If you want to stick with kernel 2.4, you can still follow the > instructions at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian- > nVidia/installation.html. They work for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. I don't > know if that will solve your problem, but it might. if vmware with 2.6 I don't see any other reason to stay with 2.4. > > Good luck, > Andrew. thanx -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
