Re: nvidiafb *almost* works

I'm about to give up on using the new nvidiafb driver (and hence the card
or Linux), but I'm making one last plea for advice.

Like I said, the framebuffer driver works with fbset with no problem, but
advcfg and advv both exit with a Segmentation fault.

I built them with debugging support and run advcfg under gdb so I could
see the stack backtrace.  The trap occurs in the inline function
crtc_is_nvsync (crtc.h, line 149), when using the crtc pointer.  Obviously
the pointer is bad, but how does this happen?

I have already built a different system using the rivafb framebuffer
driver and it works wonderfully.

Any thoughts before I pack it in?

Thanks!!!

John


> I patched the nvidiafb framebuffer driver into a 2.6.11 kernel and it
> almost works.  fbset works.  When I run advcfg, it comes up, but as soon
> as it tests a low resolution, it exits with a Segmentation fault, leaving
> the display in the low resolution.  The same happens with advv.
>
> I'm surprised the failure doesn't show itself as a kernel Oops.  The
> rivafb does not work with this GeForce FX 5200 card.
>
> Anyone else have experience with the new nvidiafb driver and ideas about
> what can be done to make it work properly?  I'm using Mandrakelinux 10.1,
> but with 2.6.11 kernel built from their source RPM.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>




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