Nvidia support
brad allison
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu May 16 13:17:01 2002
Nope. Ben's kernel completely locks up too.
Ben's kernel booted fine, and I booted it with the "novideo" option in
yaboot.
When it came up I ran Xconfiguration and changed the driver from "fbdev"
to "nv" and ran then ran "startx" and it completely locked the box.
-b
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Kenshin Black wrote:
> That's with YDL kernel, i've been to busy to experiment with
> 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 kernel, but it seems to work with Quicksilver Nvidia.
> You should give it a try
>
> www.ppckernel.org
>
> > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Kenshin Black wrote:
> >
> >> On 09/05/2002 12:07 PM, Kenshin Black wrote:
> >>
> >> My card is also rev. 161 and the monitor is a Studio Display 17 CRT with the
> >> VGA connector. I'm getting 800x600 15bit (not very nice) with "fbdev" driver
> >> and the YDL 2.2 default kernel. If i use "nv" driver it hangs. If i try
> >> changing "fbdev" by "nv" it hangs in a black screen, if i use a bigger
> >> resolution with "fbdev", it goes to power saving mode indicating it's out if
> >> range.
> >
> > I'm experiencing the exact same problem.
> >
> > -b
>
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