Re: nvidia 9400 support in nvidiafb: available in kernels > 2.6.29 ?

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> Hello there
>  
> I'm having a hard time making nvidiafb work with my nvidia integrated
> graphisc: it's a 9400 series, and it seems it's not supported in the 2.6.29
> kernel I'm currently using. Dmesg spits the typical "unknown NV_ARCH"
> message, and that's about it.
>  
> Do you know if there's a wider support for newer nvidia chips in the
> nvidiafb on newer knernel versions?

The nvidiafb driver is pretty old. Try the nouveau dri tree. It has fbdev 
support. I run it at home and its stable. You will need a few patch tho
for the fbdev layer to work properly.

git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6
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