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From: Matthias Langer <mlangc@×××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:18:07
Message-Id: 1131448374.10182.0.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia by Bob Young
1 On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:58 -0800, Bob Young wrote:
2 >
3 > -----Original Message-----
4 > From: David Corbin [mailto:gentoo.org@××××××××××.com]
5 > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:21 PM
6 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
7 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia
8 >
9 > On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:13 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote:
10 > > Philip Webb wrote:
11 > > > Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ?
12 > >
13 > > Yup. In /etc/conf.d/local.start
14 > >
15 > > /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh
16 > >
17 > > or
18 > >
19 > > mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0
20 > > mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
21 >
22 >
23 > This doesn't work for me. If I have the nvidia FB compiled in, then nvidia
24 > module fails to load long before local.start seems to be called.
25 >
26 >
27 > You can't have the nv driver providing the console frame buffer, then load
28 > the nvidia driver. If you do that, you have two different modules laying
29 > claim to control of the video hardware, thus causing the second one to fail
30 > to load.. If you want support for different video modes and boot splash etc,
31 > use the vesafb, then your nvidia driver should load.
32 > Bob Young
33
34 This link may be relevant:
35 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104369
36 mlangc
37
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