Nvidia support

[Bill Fink]

On Thu May 16 2002, kaz wrote:

> The novideo option is not enough. You should have a kernel from
> the Ben's latest source (2.4.19-pre8-ben0, rsynced AFTER May 10, 2002)
> compiled with the config of NO rivafb support (# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not 
> set), to work with the nv driver of XFree86-4.2. If the kernel has
> a working rivafb driver, the driver works in place of the offb driver
> even if you start up with the novideo option, and the nv driver does
> not work (and the machine hungs as you describe).

Well I have CONFIG_FB_RIVA enabled in my kernel and just use the novideo
option, but it's probably best to have CONFIG_FB_RIVA disabled initially,
when trying to get X working.  And definitely get a fresh rsync of the
2.4.19-pre8-ben0 kernel.  Since I don't know offhand what config options
the www.ppckernel.org kernels were built with, I can't recommend them
at this point.  In just checking the site, the most recent build is from
May 7th, so it might not be quite recent enough either.

> I do not know how works well this configuration for the ADC connected
> display. I have confirmed only for the VGA connected one.

I am also using a VGA connected monitor.

						-Bill