Re: VIA and NVIDIA

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>]

Wed, 14 Jan 2004 @ 20:16 +0100, Nuno Alexandre said:

> Hi Eddie.
> I have Asus A7V, KT 333
> AMD 1800+
> Gforce 2gts
> 768 DDR Kingston
> 
> settings on
> pre-empt
> AGPART
> 
> not using framebuffer.
> As you see, very similar setup, apart from the riva fb.  But I have
> had  a framebuffer working with help from some patches available on
> the gentoo forums, but they don't work on the latest kernel build. So
> i dropped it.

You are using framebuffer with the commercial nVidia driver? I didn't
think you could do that.

I run kernel 2.6.1 and the 4620 version of the commercial driver.
The only problem so far is a lot of messages in the logs like
this:

Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid co
ntext at mm/page_alloc.c:550
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel: in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel: Call Trace:
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c011ad8b>] __might_sleep+0xab/0xd0
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c013aa45>] __alloc_pages+0x365/0x370
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c01192f9>] scheduler_tick+0x489/0x4a0
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c0117378>] pte_alloc_one+0x18/0x50
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c0142834>] pte_alloc_map+0x44/0xd0
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c01438b7>] remap_page_range+0xc7/0x1e0
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<d0da3cf6>] os_map_io_space+0x56/0x70 [nvidia
]
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<d0c6ceba>] __nvsym00624+0x1e/0x28 [nvidia]
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<d0c6b8f1>] __nvsym00601+0x91/0xc4 [nvidia]
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<d0c6baa2>] __nvsym00610+0x26/0x5c [nvidia]
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<d0c70db3>] rm_map_agp_pages+0x1b/0x24 [nvidi
a]
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<d0da0bad>] nv_kern_mmap+0x35d/0x380 [nvidia]
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c0146110>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x360/0x720
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c01100fb>] old_mmap+0x13b/0x180
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c010921b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel:  [<c0284627>] ahc_run_qoutfifo+0x27/0xc0
Jan 15 02:05:25 daydream kernel: 

I hope nVidia releases real 2.6 drivers soon.

I have tried to get by with the nv driver, but the performance hit is
just too much, and I still use 3D apps now and then.

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