From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:39:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510173935.2ca4250c@pascal.spore.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178797225.6803.93.camel@orpheus>
On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:10:25 +0930
Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard
> GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it:
> 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device
> 03d2 (rev a2)
Unless the device is that new or that rare, I find it difficult to
believe that lspci doesn't recognize it, at least without inquiring
first as to whether you've recently updated lspci. If not, you may not
be updating the device id database it uses to identify hardware.
>vesafb: BUG, returned from vm86 with ffffffff (EIP: 0xc0fcc)
>vesafb: warning, copying modelist from somewhere in RAM!
>vesafb: Sorry, pre-VBE 2.0 cards are not supported.
>vesafb: vbe_init failed
>vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -22
Isn't there an option in more recent kernels to disable vm86 for buggy
VGA bioses?
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 11:40 [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400 Iain Buchanan
2007-05-10 12:31 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-10 22:39 ` Dan Farrell [this message]
2007-05-10 22:56 ` James Ausmus
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