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From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:49:00
Message-Id: 20070510173935.2ca4250c@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400 by Iain Buchanan
1 On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:10:25 +0930
2 Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
3
4 > Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard
5 > GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it:
6 > 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device
7 > 03d2 (rev a2)
8
9 Unless the device is that new or that rare, I find it difficult to
10 believe that lspci doesn't recognize it, at least without inquiring
11 first as to whether you've recently updated lspci. If not, you may not
12 be updating the device id database it uses to identify hardware.
13
14 >vesafb: BUG, returned from vm86 with ffffffff (EIP: 0xc0fcc)
15 >vesafb: warning, copying modelist from somewhere in RAM!
16 >vesafb: Sorry, pre-VBE 2.0 cards are not supported.
17 >vesafb: vbe_init failed
18 >vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -22
19
20 Isn't there an option in more recent kernels to disable vm86 for buggy
21 VGA bioses?
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