Re: [patch] Re: GeForce 4 MX have no working frame buffer at all..

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>]

On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:14, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Ploum Ploum <ploum@mitose.net> :
> [...]
>
> > Here's the lspci -vvvv output for the card :
> >
> > 0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18
> > [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>
> Try patch below. If it does not work, please send a complete dmesg and
> lspci -vx.
>
> diff -puN drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c~rivafb-missing-id
> drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c ---
> linux-2.6.8.1/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c~rivafb-missing-id	2004-08-21
> 13:05:41.000000000 +0200 +++
> linux-2.6.8.1-romieu/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c	2004-08-21
> 13:07:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -1836,6 +1836,7 @@ static u32
> riva_get_arch(struct pci_dev
>  		case 0x0110:   /* GeForce2 MX */
>  		case 0x0150:   /* GeForce2 */
>  		case 0x0170:   /* GeForce4 MX */
> +		case 0x0171:   /* GeForce4 MX */
>  		case 0x0180:   /* GeForce4 MX (8x AGP) */
>  		case 0x01A0:   /* nForce */
>  		case 0x01F0:   /* nForce2 */
>

No, the above won't work.  The GF4 MX 440 is NV18 which should be covered
by the statement 'case 0x0180'.

Try using linux-2.6.8.1 + Andrew's -mm2 patch.  Older 2.6 kernels incorrectly
classified your card as NV_ARCH_20, which should be NV_ARCH_10.

Tony




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