Re: [PATCH] GeForce 5200 on rivafb

[Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>]

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:34, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2004 09:47, Lucas Correia Villa Real wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was trying to figure out why my GeForce FX 5200 wasn't being recognized
> > by rivafb, when I saw that its ID was not being included by the driver.
> >
> > The following patch (against 2.6.10-rc3) allows it to compile and switch
> > to graphics mode successfully.
>
> We haven't included the id's for NV30 chipsets and newer since the rivafb
> code was made for NV20 and older cards.  So we add the id's only if users
> report that it works.
>
> > Just a note: the README file shipped with the NVIDIA driver has a
> > complete list of device ID's. While it's easy to add them all into riva.c
> > and pci_ids.h, I'm not very sure if it's okay to flood them with #defines
> > and by increasing heavily the rivafb_pci_tbl table.
> >
> > Is it ok to do that, or were you waiting to get a feedback from users
> > from those cards first? I can provide a patch to include all the missing
> > cards if there's no problem on doing that.
>
> Actually, I'm planning to replace/supplement the rivafb driver with
> nvidiafb which will support NV30 and NV40 chipsets, including full
> acceleration as well as better display detection.  If you don't mind, I'm
> going to attach the patch for testing.  Usage is:
>
> video=nvidiafb:<options>
>
> where options are quite similar to rivafb's.
>
> Patch should apply against recent 2.6 kernels, but it might choke on
> include/linux/pci_ids.h. Let me know if it works for you.

Hi Tony,

It worked perfectly fine here (after some adjusts on pci_ids.h):

nvidiafb: nVidia device/chipset 10DE0322
nvidiafb: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
nvidiafb: CRTC0 found
nvidiafb: CRTC1 not found
nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS1
nvidiafb: CRTC 0 appears to have a CRT attached
nvidiafb: Using CRT on CRTC 0
nvidiafb: MTRR set to ON
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 90x25
nvidiafb: PCI nVidia NV32 framebuffer (128MB @ 0xF0000000)

Just let me know if you want to test something special on this driver (I'm 
already subscribed to the mailing list) -- I volunteer to do that.

Cheers, and thanks for the good work :-)
Lucas


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