Re: [ACPI] Testing: NVidia closed driver fails.

[Ducrot B. <du...@po...>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:38:16PM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
> > I wanted to make a special request for testing of the 2.4 patch (or should
> > I say, MEGA-patch).
> >
> >
> > - DOES IT BOOT?
> > - DOES IT ASSIGN INTERRUPTS PROPERLY?
> >
> 
> I have tried the 2.4.20-pre7 + acpi-20020918 patch on a single Athlon XP 
> 1.7+, VIA VT8637 KT266 chipset. The system boots and displays some ACPI info 
> that looks fine.
> However, the proprietary NVidia video driver (I have a Geforce 2 MX card and 
> the newest 1.0.3123 proprietary driver) fails to start the X system. I 
> strongly suspect (although I don't have enough debug info yet) that the acpi 
> patch is the one that makes NVidia fail. The 2.4.19 worked until the acpi 
> patch was applied to it.

I suspect an interrupt trouble.  Could you 'lspci -xxx -vvv' the device with and
without acpi?

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