Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761780AbYA1Qu6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:50:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758415AbYA1Quu (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:50:50 -0500 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.179]:26738 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756282AbYA1Qus (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:50:48 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=J4W/qTTt5DqSM6wCQbzAWE2KEJCOU8Yz6nJgaILV6AO1SCNxz7DSw1+0CACiImyfyTCZ2uVFl7b2eBryTyLfE4qBgak5jrLg+MtrfJ3I8XMH+wupwrL+mLkaymsjUmtv5TQEHJDH/pYqCJsUWaVyaxu8S8IdEnS5NPyKm/8SEAM= Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 From: Calvin Walton To: Gene Heskett Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ide Mailing list In-Reply-To: <200801281135.14555.gene.heskett@gmail.com> References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801280754.53768.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <18333.57152.472830.608248@harpo.it.uu.se> <200801281135.14555.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:50:43 -0500 Message-Id: <1201539043.31293.7.camel@zem> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.21.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1462 Lines: 31 On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >Unfortunately we also see: > > > [ 48.285456] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. > > > [ 48.549725] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI > > > 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 20 [ 48.550149] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 > > > Kernel Module 169.07 Thu Dec 13 18:42:56 PST 2007 > > > >We have no way of debugging that module, so please try 2.6.24 without it. > > Sorry, I can't do this and have a working machine. The nv driver has suffered > bit rot or something since the FC2 days when it COULD run a 19" crt at > 1600x1200, and will not drive this 20" wide screen lcd 1680x1050 monitor at > more than 800x600, which is absolutely butt ugly fuzzy, looking like a jpg > compressed to 10%. The system is not usable on a day to basis without the > nvidia driver. You should probably give the nouveau[1] driver a try, if only for testing purposes; if you are running an NV4x (G6x or G7x) card in particular, it works a lot better than the nv driver for 2d support. 1. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau -- Calvin Walton -- 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/