nVidia and Starcraft

[Zac]

In article <4tOt6.6526$g93.1155380 at typhoon.tampabay.rr.com>, 
irsman at cfl.rr.com says...
> In article <20010320141954.08865.00000039 at ng-bk1.aol.com>,
> Daniel Foesch <krach42 at aol.com> wrote:
> >Ok... here's my big problem with the nVidia drivers.  Ever since I upgraded to
> >0.9-6  DGA mode with Starcraft has been broken!, and now with the 0.9-767
> >drivers Starcraft has refused to work AT ALL.  If I replace the drivers back to
> >the 0.9-5 (which are dreadfully unstable with SMP) Starcraft works fine.  Any
> >resolution, any color depth.  With 0.9-6 I have to run Starcraft at 8-bit
> >depth, else I get strange mirroring effects, showing that it's only writing
> >8-bit information on a 32-bit screen.  With 0.9-767... well, that just crashes
> >flat on its face.
> 
> Complain to nvidia - they have an email address for bugs.
> 
> The 0.9-7 series are very broken for me - X will never start the first try 
> (the server segfaults), and will randomly freeze the whole system 
> afterwards.  I downgraded to 0.9-6 (which does work for me, but I don't 
> play Starcraft :)

I've fixed problems with nvidia crashing (0.97).
Kernel 2.4.2
Asus TNT 16Mb SGRAM + tvout.
How?

Just recompiled kernel without agpgart support...and voila!
no more crashes and segfaults

PS: Option NVAGP is set to 1 so AGP works...i can see it in Xfree.log