Re: NVIDIA proprietary driver problem

[Petr Vandrovec]

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

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