Re: nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >First, are you talking about the kernel nvidiafb (or the older rivbafb) > >or X "nv" driver ? > > Well, > > I've compiled nvidiafb in the kernel 2.6.12, but I use the driver "nv" in my > xorg.conf. Is that incorrect? or should I use "nvidiafb"? No, that is fine. > > >Well, actually the exte

Re: nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi, On Mi, Okt 05, 2005 at 09:49:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, how can I switch between two screens? which X configuration should I use? > > Because, I've tried to simply connect the external screen before power up the > machine and it didn't work. To enable the internal output, put th

nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-05 Thread josep29
>> Last june 2005 I've bought a fine powerbook G4 12", and I did subestimate the >> problems from the nvidia FX GeForce 5200 grafic card under GNU/Linux. It >> seems >> the nv driver doesn't support yet: >First, are you talking about the kernel nvidiafb (or the older rivbafb) >or X "nv" driver ?

Re: nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-03 Thread Jeremiah Benham
Is there anything we can get grom this project called Macvidia. It is an effort to create nvidia drivers for osX x86 version. Here is the website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/macvidia/ They have not posted any code yet but they have a small community on irc. Jeremiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-03 Thread Alexander Clausen
d at this point. > Those _are_ supported by the HaikuOS driver it seems so it would be > possible to use it as an example and implement the support in X.org if > you volunteer ... :) Well, actually the external VGA/DVI does work, but internal and external output are mutually exclusive... >

Re: nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
ample, the haikuOS (again) driver seem to have some bits, and Lars Knoll from the KDE team has been working on an EXA render acceleration hook afaik, using the 3D engine on those. > .. and the propietary nvidia driver is not available for ppc architecture. > So I ask: which is the nv present an

nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-03 Thread josep29
7;t sleep (when close the laptop, it keeps eating battery) 3.- 3D acceleration (not so important at the moment) .. and the propietary nvidia driver is not available for ppc architecture. So I ask: which is the nv present and future? is there the possibility some day this things are going to work? is the

Re: nvidia driver

2003-01-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:41, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > I've been trying some of the latest kernels. The 2.4.x versions seem to > work OK except I can't seem to get X to work. I have a dual proc G4 and > one CPU is pegged with usage at 99%. Attaching with gdb gives: Attaching > to process 2925 > 0x10

nvidia driver

2003-01-28 Thread Fred Heitkamp
ous errors that I can find. I didn't see any address in that range when I nm'd The X server so I don't know where that address is. What I was wondering is, is the nvidia driver broken in the latest kernels? I have a GForce 2MX. BTW I know this is probably not a good list to ask ab

Re: nvidia driver on powermac

2001-12-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >> Also, I have the kernel compiled with nvidia support. What is the >> video command to pass to the kernel to load the nvidia driver? > >I use video=riva:[EMAIL PROTECTED],font:SUN12x22 on my i386 box. But are you >sure that your kernel contains the necessary fixes? La

Re: nvidia driver on powermac

2001-12-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 00:10, F. Heitkamp wrote: > I've read on penguinppc.org that the nvidia driver for > PowerPC G4 Macintosh might at least be partially working. > (both kernel and X). When I pull the Xfree86 sources from > CVS, no "nv" module gets built. So it

nvidia driver on powermac

2001-12-16 Thread F. Heitkamp
I've read on penguinppc.org that the nvidia driver for PowerPC G4 Macintosh might at least be partially working. (both kernel and X). When I pull the Xfree86 sources from CVS, no "nv" module gets built. Does any one know about whether the nv driver works? Also, I have the kerne