On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 16:10 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:43 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:10:0 > > > (WW) NV: Ignoring unsupported device 0x10de07e1 (GeForce 7100/nForce > > > 630i) at 00@00:10:0 > > > (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev > > Unsupported??? (Big, Texas "Hunnnh...?") > > > > After looking at this log in detail (and googling to see others with the > > same card plus F9/10 and other distros having the identical problem), I > > guess the real question to ask is why the nv driver seems to support > > every nVidia card out there _except_ the GeForce 7100 series. > > > > Oversight? If intentional, why, and what can be done to include it? > > Not an oversight, utterly intentional. You can thank nvidia for this > one. Apparently it's slightly weirder than your normal geforce 7, and > they haven't written the code to support it in the nv driver yet (nor > told us what needs doing). > > We _ought_ to fall straight back to vesa if we can. I've stared at this > code a bit and not figured out why we're not falling back properly, but > I guess I'll stare more. > > If you're feeling adventurous you could hack out the bit of the nv > driver that rejects that chip and then bang on things until it works, > but it's not the sort of thing one can be hand-held through, you really > will have to poke blindly until it works... Alright, I've got a (bad) fix for this. Not the final fix I want to use, but I'd at least appreciate some testing from people with this kind of nv driver failure. It's actually an X server fix, and it can be found here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/ajax/task_940170/ Run X, either with no config file or with nv selected as the driver in the config, and then verify in the X log that we fell back to vesa. I don't have one of the affected nv chips so I had to synthesize the failure by hacking the nv driver, but it should work. Probably. - ajax
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