Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261751AbTILQ2d (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:28:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261762AbTILQ2d (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:28:33 -0400 Received: from vana.vc.cvut.cz ([147.32.240.58]:21376 "EHLO vana.vc.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261751AbTILQ2a (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:28:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:28:12 +0200 From: Petr Vandrovec To: krose+linux-kernel@krose.org Cc: ken@krwtech.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA proprietary driver problem Message-ID: <20030912162812.GA10942@vana.vc.cvut.cz> References: <87u17if7eu.fsf@nausicaa.krose.org> <87r82mf6j9.fsf@nausicaa.krose.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1574 Lines: 40 On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:29:43AM -0400, Ken Witherow wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Kyle Rose wrote: > > > > What motherboard is it? > > > > Tyan Tiger MP, dual Athlon MP 1800's. > > I've got the same motherboard and processors with a GF4 MX420 > > I'm running 2.6.0-test5 with the 4496 drivers with the patches from > minion.de without any problems. > > Sep 9 00:06:08 death kernel: nvidia: no version magic, tainting kernel. > Sep 9 00:06:08 death kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints > kernel. > Sep 9 00:06:08 death kernel: 1: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o > Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003 BIOS has setting whether IRQ should be assigned to the VGA card or not - default is not, and if you'll leave it this way, you'll get no IRQ: platan:~# lspci -s 0:0e.0 -vb 00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 255 Memory at 51000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) I/O ports at 1000 Memory at 50001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2 If you'll change BIOS's setting, your Nvidia (or vsync code on matroxfb) should work. Petr Vandrovec - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/