Re: [gentoo-dev] nVidia - documentation addendum

[Thomas Beaudry]

last time i looked it said in the readme supplied by nvidia
that you had to turn off kernel support to prevent contention


>From: Denis Shcherbakov <deniss@×××××××××.EDU>
>To: gentoo-dev@g.o
>Subject: [gentoo-dev] nVidia - documentation addendum
>Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:02:08 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>Guys,
>
>never mind the email I sent earlier regarding nVidia drivers.  I found
>Christian Zander's document in English on your site, and I contacted him.
>He told me that turning off rivafb framebuffer support in the kernel helps
>resolve the error in initializing NVdriver module.  So I turned it off,
>and without this framebuffer, X came up at a good resolution, like it
>should have.
>
>If you recall, I was getting module initialization error for NVdriver
>kernel module, which was breaking the "nvidia" in X.
>
>So, in your Desktop Configuration Guide, where you talk about setting up
>X, and talk about an addendum for NVIDIA owners (Code listings 8 thru 10),
>PLEASE add an "Important" or a "Warning" that X will probably not start
>with the new NVIDIA drivers, unless rivafb framebuffer support in the
>kernel is disabled.  Either the module should be removed, or, if rivafb
>support is compiled into the kernel, it can be turned off using
>"video=riva:off" as one of the kernel boot parameters.
>
>I lost some sleep over this, so if you add this, it might save other
>Nvidia users some time.
>
>Christian's credit for communicating the solution of this to me.
>
>Best,
>Denis
>
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