Re: [linux-audio-user] low-lat kernel for gentoo -- conflict with nvidia driver

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] low-lat kernel for gentoo -- conflict with nvidia driver
From: Peter Lutek (plutek_AT_infinity.net)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 00:27:46 EET


On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 15:01, Curtis Sloan wrote:
> On Sun October 31 2004 13:37, Peter Lutek wrote:
> > greetings!
> >
> > i am installing gentoo on an hp zd-7140us laptop (with nVidia GeForce FX
> > Go5200 video), using the mm-sources kernel (2.6.10-rc1 with andrew
> > morton's patches), but am finding that neither the gentoo ebuild of the
> > Nvidia driver (nvidia-glx), nor the linux driver distributed by nVidia
> > (v 1.0-6111) is compatible with that kernel.
> >
> > has anyone here successfully used nVidia under this kernel? if so, i
> > would be delighted to have some details.
> >
> > failing that, is there some collective wisdom out there about how to
> > construct another kernel (preferably 2.6), patched for low-lat etc,
> > which IS compatible with the nVidia drivers?
>
> First post on kerneltrap.org from the Linux - 2.6.9 public announcement:
>
> "nVidia 6111 driver doesn't work with it"
>
> There are a couple of patches, including one for (from?) Gentoo, in subsequent
> child posts.
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4022
>
> I don't know if this condition has been fixed in 2.6.10 or not. For that
> matter, it may not even be the issue you are experiencing, but your plight
> twigged my memory.
>
> HTH,
> Curtis S.
>
>

thanks, curtis. applied that patch to 2.6.10 (it was NOT there), but
this did not solve the problem.

-p


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