Re: 2.6.16 and nVidia closed source

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > I found that for *7* series drivers, the patch reported here: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62889 > works. It is: > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt Thanks a lot for sharing this information! I just tried to install 2.6.16 and was too lazy to googl

2.6.16 and nVidia closed source

Hi, 2.6.16 causes problems for the *closed source* nVidia drivers. There is already a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357992 But that does little for older, legacy type video cards. I have a TNT2 and could use 7167 on pre-2.6.16. I found that for *7* series driver