On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well as I said, the nv driver does not have problems with some fb drivers, while nvidia driver always does.
Well, frequently but not always: I administer a bunch of amd64 workstations and all of them have nvidia graphic cards, use the nvidia driver _and_ the vesa fb, built into the kernel and selecting a well defined vesa mode at boot. I never experienced a problem with this. Maybe I was just lucky. On the other hand, I could not use the same setup with my amd64 laptop: if I try it boots flawlessly, but the vesa graphics modes are not compatible with my lcd display, therefore I get a blank screen until kdm starts, and the console is unusable. The nvidia driver _is_ incompatible with the nvidiafb driver, though. Bye Giacomo -- _________________________________________________________________ Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________________ OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916 _________________________________________________________________ "When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are" (Freddy Mercury) _________________________________________________________________ -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]