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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:05:30 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: Nvidia framebuffer in 2.5
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:11:59PM -0400, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:

> This stopped working many kernels ago, and I thought perhaps it's
> being converted to a different API... but it hasn't been fixed
> yet..is it a bug?

That are patches floating about to make it work for 2.5.x; however it
has some 'schedule while holding locks' issues which may not be fixed
anytime soon.

Bug nVIDIA :)



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