I like many people am very frustrated with proprietary drivers and I will use open source drivers whenever ppossible. However, I have a couple laptops with NVIDIA video cards that I try to use the "nv" driver with but I can't seem to get power management to turn off the backlight. I tried again with FC5T3 and it's still not working.
Does anyone have advice on how to get that to work so I don't have to deal with the NVIDIA closed source drivers again?
Gregory Gulik wrote:
I like many people am very frustrated with proprietary drivers and I will use open source drivers whenever ppossible. However, I have a couple laptops with NVIDIA video cards that I try to use the "nv" driver with but I can't seem to get power management to turn off the backlight. I tried again with FC5T3 and it's still not working.
Does anyone have advice on how to get that to work so I don't have to deal with the NVIDIA closed source drivers again?
Presumeably the problem is not a configuration problem, but a hardware support problem. The best way of dealing with hardware support problems with the open source nv driver, is to file bugs in X.Org bugzilla and to discuss the issue(s) on the X.org mailing lists, and then more or less sit and wait.
Since there are no public specifications for Nvidia's hardware, and the open source driver is fairly obfuscated, users are held hostage to whatever support is provided by those who do have the necessary documentation essentially, which are currently limited to a few people inside Nvidia currently, and maybe a small handful of hackers who have reverse engineered some of the bits and understand how some of it works.
Another option of course, would be to become one of the people who reverse engineers Nvidia's hardware. ;o)
Thanks. I'll take it up with x.org
Co-incidentally, I tried one of the laptops with the NVIDIA card again last night and now for some reason the "nv" driver works perfectly on that one. I didn't work when I first installed FC4 but I'm very glad to be rid of another proprietary driver.
Mike A. Harris wrote:
Presumeably the problem is not a configuration problem, but a hardware support problem. The best way of dealing with hardware support problems with the open source nv driver, is to file bugs in X.Org bugzilla and to discuss the issue(s) on the X.org mailing lists, and then more or less sit and wait.
Since there are no public specifications for Nvidia's hardware, and the open source driver is fairly obfuscated, users are held hostage to whatever support is provided by those who do have the necessary documentation essentially, which are currently limited to a few people inside Nvidia currently, and maybe a small handful of hackers who have reverse engineered some of the bits and understand how some of it works.
Another option of course, would be to become one of the people who reverse engineers Nvidia's hardware. ;o)
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