Module rivafb

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Wed Mar 16 15:15:50 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 09:50, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:17:25 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >I saw the same message during a build of new machine recently.  When I
> >investigated the rivafb module I found that this appears to be a frame
> >buffer driver that is used for some devices.  In my case I ignored the
> >warning message and loaded the nvidia driver as documented.  In my case
> >the system has not had any problems running the nvidia driver.
> 
> I think, as long as you don't have loaded rivafb as a module, you
> may not running in problems.

That appears to be the case.

I am not clear though what circumstance requires the rivafb module?
 
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