From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:51:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:51:52 -0500 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:53752 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:51:52 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 13/07/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <200301101544.h0AFiBLK009357@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <200301101544.h0AFiBLK009357@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1042203152.954.7.camel@vihta> <15902.50901.407336.44434@harpo.it.uu.se> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Mikael Pettersson , Harry Sileoni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Suggestion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:00:32 +0000 Message-ID: <6382.1042218032@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said: > The Dell Latitude C840 (what I have) and the (AFAIK) Inspiron 8100 > both use the NVidia geForce4 Go graphics chipset, and apparently the > posted patches to make nvidia's closed-source drivers work under 2.5 > have issues with ACPI on some platforms. Digging back, I only found > like one message on the LKML archives that mentioned the nvidia > drivers don't play nice with ACPI. Note that you can buy replacement non-nVidia graphics cards for the I8x00 as spare parts fairly cheaply, and they're very easy to install. -- dwmw2