Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

[Henrik Frisk]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Chris Smart <mail at christophersmart.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Searching for the error I came across the nvidia README [1] which,
>> under chapter 9 "Known Issues", in the section "Kernel virtual address
>> space exhaustion on the X86 platform" describes the error I'm
>> experiencing. The solution is to pass vmalloc=192MB (or 256MB) to the
>> kernel boot options. If i get the time tomorrow I will try it and
>> report if it works.
>>
>
> OK, good luck! It's out of my depth now :-) The only other thing I was
> going to suggest was to make sure that version of the driver supports
> your card.
>
> Damn proprietary drivers..
>
Indeed. However, the solution described in the nvidia readme appears
to haves solved my problem. I simply added vmalloc=192MB to the kernel
arguments and I've been able to rebbot the machine, with nvidia
drivers enabled, several time now. Keeping my fingers crossed...

If it stays good I will put up some instructions on my blog about the
procedure to make it work.

Thanks for all the help so far!

best,

/Henrik