On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 15:01, Curtis Sloan wrote: > On Sun October 31 2004 13:37, Peter Lutek wrote: > > greetings! > > > > i am installing gentoo on an hp zd-7140us laptop (with nVidia GeForce FX > > Go5200 video), using the mm-sources kernel (2.6.10-rc1 with andrew > > morton's patches), but am finding that neither the gentoo ebuild of the > > Nvidia driver (nvidia-glx), nor the linux driver distributed by nVidia > > (v 1.0-6111) is compatible with that kernel. > > > > has anyone here successfully used nVidia under this kernel? if so, i > > would be delighted to have some details. > > > > failing that, is there some collective wisdom out there about how to > > construct another kernel (preferably 2.6), patched for low-lat etc, > > which IS compatible with the nVidia drivers? > > First post on kerneltrap.org from the Linux - 2.6.9 public announcement: > > "nVidia 6111 driver doesn't work with it" > > There are a couple of patches, including one for (from?) Gentoo, in subsequent > child posts. > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4022 > > I don't know if this condition has been fixed in 2.6.10 or not. For that > matter, it may not even be the issue you are experiencing, but your plight > twigged my memory. > > HTH, > Curtis S. > > thanks, curtis. applied that patch to 2.6.10 (it was NOT there), but this did not solve the problem. -p
