On March 22, 2007 12:22:42 pm Joe Hart wrote: > Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On March 22, 2007 07:11:54 am David Baron wrote: > >> Getting this booting a 2.6.20-3 rt-patched kernel: > >> > >> Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA > >> i2c adapter 0 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! Mar > >> 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c > >> adapter 1 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! Mar 22 > >> 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c > >> adapter 2 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! > >> > >> I am using Nvidia's 9631 driver (last one to support old Geforce mx400 > >> cards). I doubt this relates to the rt patch. There is nothing about > >> this in Xorg.0.log and the driver is working correctly. > >> > >> So ... how do I "fix it!" ?? (Or simply ignore it?) > >> > >> I do not get this error for 2.6.18 kernels. > > > > You ignore it, according to one of the Nvidia employees who post on the > > nvnews.net site it is a useless warning that will be fixed in some > > unspecified future version of the driver. > > Somehow I don't think nvidia is planning on updating that driver. They > no longer support the old cards, that's why David has to use the old > drivers. The new driver doesn't support his card. It is not typical > that companies will work on drivers of old products. They want you to > buy their new product instead. > > Sorry to say, you'll either have to live with that error, downgrade your > kernel, use open drivers or get a new video card. Those are the only > options I see. > > Joe > > -- > Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/
I believe the idea is that the legacy driver as they are calling it will continue to be updated to keep supporting the older cards at least that is what I have read on the site whether they do it or not is another thing... Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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