> > So how exactly does the patch work fine for you? On what type of riva > > card? > > > > Tried it, and still freezes the flatpanel imac on boot. > Does this also happen with 2.4? Could you post your PCI IDs?
Doesn't happen with 2.4.23-ben1 (of not quite so recent vintage). In fact, the brightness setting doesn't seem to scale too bad. With 2.6, I haven't debugged further yet. We might need to hold the console lock when accessing the card. lspci -vv for the card attached (GeForce 2 MX / 400). Is that all you need? Michael
00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 248 (1250ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 48 Region 0: Memory at 91000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at 98000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Expansion ROM at 90000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2 Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>