Linux 2.6 kernel and Nvidia drivers

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Spaceman
I am playing Privateer Remake in Linux - 512 MB ram, Nvidia Geforce 5600.

When running with the 2.6.10 kernel and Nvidia 6629 driver, everything is fine. If I switch to the 2.6.11 kernel, Nvidia 7167 driver, the game plays fine, but graphics when flying missions are much worse. Lines are fragmented and choppy. When flying in HUD mode, fonts are almost unreadable and the 2 circles for the radar displays show gaps. It looks like an antialiasing problem, but tweaking the antialiasing settings in the Nvidia-settings gui app doesn't make much difference.

Has anyone seen anything like this?
 
The 7167 drivers are known to be buggy. Stay with the old one until a new one comes out or search the nvidia boards for patches
 
Yeah, just be glad you get slightly messed up gfx with the 7167 drivers. I couldn't even browse the web for more than 30s without my desktop freezing. They were a brown-paper-bag release.
 
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