Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:56:37 -0400: > The rivafb module is incompatible with the nvidia driver; see > /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian. This shouldn't be a > problem if you never load that module, but if it does ever get loaded > for some reason, your monitor could explode (figuratively speaking). I
I was reading this just the other day, trying to decide whther I want to try getting my old nvidia card working again (I don't even have non-accelarated GLX in its current state using the nv driver -- when I was using nvidia, I had GLX, and managed about 2 frames a second in glxgears, before the machine would crash -- yay!). I have successfully gotten rivafb to talk with my video card simulataneously with the nv X driver. I need this, because I have a fixed freq monitor, and so need modelines that vesafb can't provide when at the console. Do you know of any other way? Presumably, I could use framebuffer X (Option "UseFBDev" "true"), but then I would have to put up with even slower X with no accelaration. Damn, I should have asked DS this lastnight over the pizza (although he may be sick of talking about work) :) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. -- Hamilcar Barca @ comp.os.linux.advocacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
