From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HmHRT-0008Uh-Kb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:49:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4AMlbZY026657; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:47:37 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx (c-24-245-14-14.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.245.14.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4AMdZoI016282 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:39:37 GMT Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0D31DE18 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 17:39:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:39:35 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400 Message-ID: <20070510173935.2ca4250c@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <1178797225.6803.93.camel@orpheus> References: <1178797225.6803.93.camel@orpheus> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ffa1535a-1eab-43e8-bce4-3edb2ef0ab9f X-Archives-Hash: aa4f18908fa1344766cc8ad76465cad8 On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:10:25 +0930 Iain Buchanan 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list