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
Hi, On Di, Okt 04, 2005 at 09:04:22 GMT, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:58 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1.- external vga/dvi output (can't use a bigger screen or TV) > > Yes, none of the nvidia "free" drivers supports dual head at this point. > Those _are_ suppor

Re: nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:58 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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

nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-03 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: 1.- external vga/dvi output (can't use a bigger screen or TV) 2.- GPU doesn't sleep (when close the laptop