On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 05:35, Owen Ford wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 05:12, Mukund JB. wrote:
> > > IIRC rivafb actually screws up the nvidia driver.  I've never gotten
> > it
> > > working with *any* nvidia card ever :)
> > It is working for me. 
> > I have edited the Driver field in the device section as follows:-
> > Driver "fbdev" 
> > 
> > After then the X server is using rivafb as I could see the debug
> > messages.
> > But it is not invoked when I switch between app ( ATL+TAB) or I open new
> > app.
> > I don't know, why?
> > Is the software take care of it, rather than the fb driver?
> > Suggest, if u have any idea.
> 
> I recommend using the vesafb.  As I said before I've never got rivafb
> working so YMMV.
> 
> I frequently see people on the gentoo forums having issues with rivafb
> and the binary nvidia driver.  I am 95% certain that vesafb works with
> the nv driver or the binary nvidia driver.
> 
> Just search for rivafb on forums.gentoo.org.  Many peaple have had
> issues with it and most of the information you will find there isn't
> completely specific to the gentoo distro.
> 
> Good luck :)

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