From: Matt Heler <lkml@lpbproductions.com>
To: sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 and nvidia 1.0-6111
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:41:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409290741.45825.lkml@lpbproductions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415A6EE6.1090404@blueyonder.co.uk>
This is a known issue and it's releated to some changes in Andrew's tree. Not
to sound pesimistic but in the future expect the nvidia drivers to be broken
for the -mm tree, it is after an the expiremental kernel tree.
matt
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 1:14 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
> The usual patches applied that made it work with -mm3.
> Changed all instances of NV_REMAP_PAGE_RANGE to NV_REMAP_PFN_RANGE and
> nv_remap_page_range to nv_remap_pfn_range in nv.c, nv-linux.h,
> os-agp.c and os-interface.c as redifined in
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-rc2-mm4/include/linux/mm.h.
> The module builds and installs without problems, but on init 5, I get
> thrown back to vt1, /var/log/XFree86.0.log gives the error:-
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000
> (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE1000000
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 5200
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.34.20.42.01
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate config DMA context
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> -------------------------------
> Any help appreciated, also posted to nvidia forum.
>
> Regards
> Sid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 8:14 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 and nvidia 1.0-6111 Sid Boyce
2004-09-29 14:41 ` Matt Heler [this message]
2004-09-29 20:25 ` Sid Boyce
2004-09-29 16:55 ` Norberto Bensa
2004-09-29 17:04 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-29 17:15 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-29 17:28 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-29 18:07 ` Alistair John Strachan
2004-09-30 0:17 ` Sid Boyce
2004-09-29 18:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-29 17:21 ` Norberto Bensa
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