Nvidia ROM update

Bill Fink yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Jun 21 01:44:01 2002


On Thu Jun 20 2002, Daniel wrote:

> Quote from official YDL hardware FAQ
> (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/devices.shtml):
> 
> > There is a buggy revision of the GeForce2 MX boards (rev b2 or 178 decimal).
> > This board will not work in Linux. If you have this board, you need to upgrade
> > it to get a working rev a1 ROM.
> 
> Please can anybody tell me how do I upgrade it?

Well that's certainly odd.  I have an 867 MHz G4 at work with a rev 178
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics card that's working perfectly fine including
accelerated X with the "nv" X driver.

						-Bill