Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 and nvidia 1.0-6111

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Matt Heler wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Thanks, it did seem an easy thing to fix, when it built and inmod, I had 
high hopes.
Regards
Sid.

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