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On Thursday 04 May 2006 09:59, S. Schwartz wrote: |
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> Glenn Enright wrote: |
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> > Nvidia dont release the source for this driver, which makes it difficult |
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> > for others to patch it, even if they new how the card internals worked |
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> > ;). |
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> As far as I understand, the binary driver itself is not patched. The |
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> patching concerns the way it is integrated into your system (e.g. |
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> symbols and certain function calls, of course kernel related stuff) -- |
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> and there are source files for that. That's what is being compiled by |
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> emerge. The problem with the function/symbol pci_find_class has occured |
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> before with an older version of nvidia-kernel and was patched |
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> successfully. So, I guess it's just a matter of time and patching |
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> experience. |
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> But because of the reasons Richard wrote/summarized, it's not looking |
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> very good :-/ |
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> > Does the xorg nv driver do what you need? |
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> Fortunately yes. I can start X an do all 2D-things. For the time being |
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> I'll have to live with that. |
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> So, I guess my search for some help has come to a dead end. Thank you |
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> for all your suggestions and information. Let's hope for better Nvidia |
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> support in the future. |
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Do you have read this thread? |
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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=67068 |
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