From: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ide Mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:50:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201539043.31293.7.camel@zem> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801281135.14555.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> >Unfortunately we also see:
> > > [ 48.285456] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> > > [ 48.549725] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI
> > > 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 20 [ 48.550149] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86
> > > Kernel Module 169.07 Thu Dec 13 18:42:56 PST 2007
> >
> >We have no way of debugging that module, so please try 2.6.24 without it.
>
> Sorry, I can't do this and have a working machine. The nv driver has suffered
> bit rot or something since the FC2 days when it COULD run a 19" crt at
> 1600x1200, and will not drive this 20" wide screen lcd 1680x1050 monitor at
> more than 800x600, which is absolutely butt ugly fuzzy, looking like a jpg
> compressed to 10%. The system is not usable on a day to basis without the
> nvidia driver.
You should probably give the nouveau[1] driver a try, if only for
testing purposes; if you are running an NV4x (G6x or G7x) card in
particular, it works a lot better than the nv driver for 2d support.
1. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau
--
Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>
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[not found] <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <18333.36746.819935.641383@harpo.it.uu.se>
[not found] ` <1201521783.6149.33.camel@lappy>
2008-01-28 12:54 ` Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 13:19 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 13:57 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-01-28 16:35 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 16:50 ` Calvin Walton [this message]
2008-01-28 17:20 ` Zan Lynx
2008-01-28 17:30 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 17:44 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 17:59 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-28 18:23 ` Richard Heck
2008-01-28 20:01 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-29 0:05 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 0:34 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-29 1:31 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 1:51 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-29 4:48 ` Michal Jaegermann
2008-01-29 12:12 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 14:30 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 14:51 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 15:47 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 16:32 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 16:48 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-01-29 17:04 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 17:38 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-29 17:44 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 18:12 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-29 17:59 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 18:54 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 22:41 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-30 0:19 ` rgheck
2008-01-30 0:19 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-29 17:06 ` rgheck
2008-01-29 17:12 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 17:24 ` rgheck
2008-01-29 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 18:11 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-29 18:28 ` rgheck
2008-01-29 18:32 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-29 18:14 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-29 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 19:14 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-29 19:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-28 16:56 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 18:20 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-28 18:59 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 20:43 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-29 0:06 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 3:16 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-29 4:07 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 17:06 ` Dave Neuer
2008-01-29 4:23 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-01-29 4:49 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 5:01 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-02-02 7:13 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-28 14:44 ` Richard Heck
2008-01-28 17:01 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-28 18:38 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-28 20:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-28 20:29 ` Mark Lord
[not found] ` <479E24F7.4090502@rtr.ca>
2008-01-28 19:01 ` Mark Lord
[not found] ` <200801281404.12937.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <479E399C.1030409@rtr.ca>
2008-01-28 20:32 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-28 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-28 19:13 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 6:41 ` Florian Attenberger
2008-01-29 15:04 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 16:12 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-29 16:36 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 18:09 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-29 16:50 ` rgheck
2008-01-29 16:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-29 17:12 ` Gene Heskett
2008-01-29 17:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-29 17:53 ` Gene Heskett
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