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    SubjectRe: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24
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    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 <calvin.walton@gmail.com>



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