[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

[Iain Buchanan]

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)

I saw it listed in _one_ nvidia-drivers package (on the nvidia website)
as supported, but it hasn't been since.

Also, when I try and boot with vesafb-tng, I get this error in the
kernel output:

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

and a low 640x480 console resolution.

anyone else have the Gigabyte GAM61VME-S2 or the nforce 400?

thanks,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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than someone who hasn't.
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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

[Francisco Rivas]

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Good day,

What kernel have you?, what version of xorg?

:D

On 5/10/07, 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)
>
> I saw it listed in _one_ nvidia-drivers package (on the nvidia website)
> as supported, but it hasn't been since.
>
> Also, when I try and boot with vesafb-tng, I get this error in the
> kernel output:
>
> 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
>
> and a low 640x480 console resolution.
>
> anyone else have the Gigabyte GAM61VME-S2 or the nforce 400?
>
> thanks,
> --
> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
>
> Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things
> than someone who hasn't.
>                 -- Mark Twain
>
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

[Dan Farrell]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

[James Ausmus]

On 5/10/07, 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)
>
> I saw it listed in _one_ nvidia-drivers package (on the nvidia website)
> as supported, but it hasn't been since.

Try nvidia-legacy-drivers

HTH-

James
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