[Nouveau] 2.6.33 vs. NVIDIA GForce GT 220

[Stephane Marchesin]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:47, Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> wrote:
> 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
>

Hmm, but this is not nouveau, this is nvidiafb...

Stephane