On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:50 -0500, Calvin Walton wrote: > 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 But nouveau is much less stable than nv. For testing purposes, go with stable. I'm not sure why it won't run his screen though. I can use nv to run a 1920x1200 laptop LCD. It *is* dog slow (although nouveau was not any better with a NV17 / 440-Go -- render support for AA fonts seems to be missing), but it does work. -- Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx>
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