Nvidia support

[brad allison]

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Bill Fink wrote:
> 
> > When I changed the driver in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to Driver "nv" and did 
> > a "startx" the box locks up.
> 
> That would happen if you didn't really use the OpenFirmware video during
> booting.  BTW someone else mentioned success using the YDL 2.1 2.4.10-12a
> kernel with the "novideo" option, but then you might lose some other
> features from the newer kernels.
> 
> I wonder what else could be different in your case.  I'm running this
> fine on an 867 MHz G4 with a nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX)
> (rev 161 and also rev 178).  What hardware platform and type of NVIDIA
> card are you using (do a cat /proc/pci | grep -i nvidia)?  I'm using
> this with two different types of monitors (both VGA), one of which is
> a SONY CPD-G400 19" monitor and the other is a much older monitor for
> which I don't remember the manufacturer and model.

It would appear this doesn't work with the GeForce4 card.  It comes up as 
an "Device" then some numbers in /proc/pci instead of being nicely labeled 
like the GeForce2 MX card.

-b

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