Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

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On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> >Unfortunately we also see:
> > > [   48.285456] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> > > [   48.549725] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI
> > > 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 20 [   48.550149] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86
> > > Kernel Module  169.07  Thu Dec 13 18:42:56 PST 2007
> >
> >We have no way of debugging that module, so please try 2.6.24 without it.
> 
> Sorry, I can't do this and have a working machine.  The nv driver has suffered 
> bit rot or something since the FC2 days when it COULD run a 19" crt at 
> 1600x1200, and will not drive this 20" wide screen lcd 1680x1050 monitor at 
> more than 800x600, which is absolutely butt ugly fuzzy, looking like a jpg 
> compressed to 10%.  The system is not usable on a day to basis without the 
> nvidia driver.

You should probably give the nouveau[1] driver a try, if only for
testing purposes; if you are running an NV4x (G6x or G7x) card in
particular, it works a lot better than the nv driver for 2d support.

1. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau

-- 
Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@xxxxxxxxx>

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