From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Calvin Walton Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:50:43 -0500 Message-ID: <1201539043.31293.7.camel@zem> References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801280754.53768.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <18333.57152.472830.608248@harpo.it.uu.se> <200801281135.14555.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:27000 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756246AbYA1Qut (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:50:49 -0500 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so2514406pyb.10 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:50:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200801281135.14555.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Gene Heskett Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ide Mailing list 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