Nvidia support

[Kenshin Black]

On 10/05/2002 02:11 PM, K Hanai wrote:

Thanks for your help kaz, that the one i was waiting for.
Do you know if it'd make any difference, in this case, using BenH or
Bitkeeper 2.4.19-pre8  kernels
I'm really thankful for your help


> Hi,
> 
> I have no experience with YDL, but have a quicksilver 867MHz with
> GeForce2MX connected to a 15' LCD via a VGA port. With the latest
> kernel-2.4.19-pre8-ben0 and XFree86-4.2.0, I can get 1024x768@24bpp,
> which is the largest resolution with the display. I use the kernel
> with OFFB driver and the nv driver of XFree86. (If your display
> support, I think you can get higher resolution with this
> combination). When I use the kernel nv driver and the fbdev driver
> of XFree86, I can get only 16 bpp depth color. Only these
> combinations work for the quicksilver. With the kernel nv driver
> and the nv driver of XFree86, or with the kernel OFFB and
> the fbdev of XFree86, I get the black (=no) or very poor screen.
> 
> I think this situation is the same with YDL if you use
> the latest Ben's kernel and XFree86ln0-4.2.0. The kernels before
> 2.4.18-ben0 or the latest 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 work on the quicksilver
> with the OFFB driver. The kernels from 2.4.18-ben0 to 2.4.19-pre7-ben0
> do not work on the machine either with OFFB nor with the nv driver
> because of a bug in these kernels for quicksilver. The kernel nv
> driver from the latest 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 only works on the machine.
> You can use only OFFB in other kernels. And be carefull, do not
> include nv driver in the kernel configuration if you want to use
> with the OFFB driver even with the latest 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 kernel.
> 
> HTH,
> kaz
> 
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