I will be more than happy to keep an eye for them in the bug list if it will help you out and save people the same issues I have had. I hope my filing of this bug helped with your discover of this issue.
Should I take it from you comments that you would not like me to attempt to fix this manually but rather wait until a patch has been issued for this particular card? On 3/24/09, Bryce Harrington <br...@bryceharrington.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:29:16PM -0000, Gaetan Nadon wrote: >> You have 3 choices when it comes to drivers: >> 1) The default open source "nv" driver (2D only) maintained by Ubuntu >> 2) The binary restricted driver (offered by the restricted driver manager >> - nvidia-glx) which comes from nVidia but is packaged (but not supported) >> by Ubuntu. Driver 177 in Intrepid does support your card. >> 3) The binary nVidia driver obtained directly from nVidia.com which is >> shell script installed. This is not supported by Ubuntu > > 4) The -nouveau driver, which is still highly experimental but is our > long term future hope > 5) The -vesa driver, which is stable but very limited > > I've learned recently that a number of PCIIDs are missing from -nv due > to differences between how Debian (and us) handle PCIIDs and how > upstream -nv is doing it. Debian/Ubuntu expects them to be listed > explicitly, however upstream is using a wildcarding approach. > > Since upstream is using the wildcarding approach, that sounds like the > way we should be doing it, however switching to that this late in the > release cycle may incur too large a risk of regression, so possibly the > safest/easiest thing would be for us to just collate the PCIIDs manually > ourselves. I don't know how much time I'll have to do this before > release, so would greatly appreciate any assistance in tracking down > bugs like this one, that can be resolved by adding the PCIIDs. If you > locate such bugs, please feel free to assign them to me to look at. > (It would help to make sure the title says something like > "...add support for <cardname>" in them, as that'd clue me in. > > Bryce > > -- > -nv reports it does not support GeForce 9100M G > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333040 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- -nv reports it does not support GeForce 9100M G https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
