[Nouveau] 2.6.33 vs. NVIDIA GForce GT 220

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > I tried enabling staging nvidia driver on GT220, but apparently driver
> > > does not know about it. Unfortunately, I have one of those cards here.
> > >
> > > (I wonder... is there better mailing list? MAINTAINERS only lists
> > > linux-fbdev....)
> 
> The list is nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org. And driver knows about GT220 just 
> fine, I've been using it for a month or two on GT220 already. Don't
> bother 

Perhaps nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org should be added to MAINTAINERS?

> about the "supported cards" lists in xf86-video-nouveau or wherever else, the 
> driver will happily bind to any nvidia video card with known generation, even 
> if nobody has seen that precise model before.

Unfortunately, the driver does not seem happy:

Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.491073] nvidiafb 0000:01:00.0: PCI
INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.491507] nvidiafb: Device ID:
10de0a20 
Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.491546] Chipset is 10de0a20
Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.491584] nvidiafb: unknown NV_ARCH
Jan 18 12:56:38 pma kernel: [    0.492119] vga16fb: initializing


> One thing that could happen, however, is missing ctxprog for your chipset. In 
> this case, you'll be stuck with non-accelerated nouveau until somebody 
> extracts the ctxprog from blob mmiotrace on your card -- come to freenode.net 
> IRC channel #nouveau if you need help with that. However, that shouldn't 
> happen, since the GT220 chipset is already supported.

I don't really need 3D acceleration, I'd just like to use whole size
of screen... (and found out how to do that even now, after X update
with vesa driver).
									Pavel
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