On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Brynet <bry...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Made the changes to nv_driver.c and built xenocara with the following >> >> # cd /usr/xenocara >> # rm -rf /usr/xobj/* >> # make bootstrap >> # make obj >> # make build >> >> Upon reboot when i use the "nv" driver X now recognizes my card, but >> it goes to a blank screen (just looks like the terminal) and crashes. >> >> And yes i would love to have a laptop without Nvidia but this is what >> my office gave me. I'm just happy they let me run other systems on it. >> Or at least try. > > Yeah, sorry for giving you false hope.. looking further in that file > alone shows that the driver checks against the product ID's multiple times. > > In fact, near the botton where it attempts to assign the NV_ARCH you can > see it ends up identifing your card as a NV04 (..ancient), by default. > > I not going to pretend to understand the driver, but perhaps this is > member of the G80 family? find the "NVIsG80" function and add 0x0531 to > the list of known chipsets. > > If this fails, I'm sorry.. nVidia really blows chunks eh? > > -Bryan. >
No dice. Thanks for helping though
