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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
