Re: The nv driver and GeForce 7100 (Was: F10 on Homebuilt Box - Absolutely Brutal...!!!!)

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:43 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:

>  > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:10:0
>  > (WW) NV: Ignoring unsupported device 0x10de07e1 (GeForce 7100/nForce
>  > 630i) at 00@00:10:0
>  > (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
>  Unsupported??? (Big, Texas "Hunnnh...?")
>  
>  After looking at this log in detail (and googling to see others with the
>  same card plus F9/10 and other distros having the identical problem), I
>  guess the real question to ask is why the nv driver seems to support
>  every nVidia card out there _except_ the GeForce 7100 series.
>  
>  Oversight? If intentional, why, and what can be done to include it? 
Not an oversight, utterly intentional.  You can thank nvidia for this
one.  Apparently it's slightly weirder than your normal geforce 7, and
they haven't written the code to support it in the nv driver yet (nor
told us what needs doing).

We _ought_ to fall straight back to vesa if we can.  I've stared at this
code a bit and not figured out why we're not falling back properly, but
I guess I'll stare more.

If you're feeling adventurous you could hack out the bit of the nv
driver that rejects that chip and then bang on things until it works,
but it's not the sort of thing one can be hand-held through, you really
will have to poke blindly until it works...

- ajax