[Prism54-users] Jiffy solution

Joseph Gentle josephg@cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri, 21 Nov 2003 04:33:57 +1100


Are you using the NVIDIA hardware accelerated drivers? (to test run 
glxinfo and see what the server vendor string is)

I don't know enough about drivers/etc to properly understand the problem 
though :(

-Joseph


gipmanr@mtn.co.ug wrote:

>This is strange to me because I have an asus board with a asus nvidia agp 8x
>and the sitecom wifi pci and no problem what so ever only that iwsly crashes
>my machine so I do not use it.
>
>Rob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joseph Gentle [mailto:josephg@cse.unsw.edu.au] 
>Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:14 PM
>To: prism54-users@prism54.org
>Subject: [Prism54-users] Jiffy solution
>
>
>I had the same problem - for me it turned out there was a conflict with 
>the NVIDIA drivers + ACPI... Turning off ACPI seemed to do the trick; or 
>just not booting into X.
>
>Its such a pain though because the times my wireless card is most useful 
>is when there's no points to plug into, so i'm on battery. Guess what 
>else goes away when i turn off ACPI :)
>
>They should have it fixed soon. The driver team is doing a Fantastic job 
>sofar :)
>
>Good work guys :)
>
>-Joseph.it.works!
>
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