[NTLUG:Discuss] Promise Ultra100 TX2 on linux?

[Greg Edwards]

Darin W. Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:31:26 -0500, Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:
> 
>> OBTW, I may have forgotten to followup on the A7N8X problems, sorry. 
>> I've found the issue to be the Nvidia graphics driver combined with 
>> this MB.  When I switched from the nvidia driver to the nv XFree86 
>> driver my problems vanished.  I like the nvidia driver and I think it 
>> is a good solution but I'd really like to see them stop playing these 
>> games with ASUS (and others like ATI) compatibility.  They're acting a 
>> little too much like M$!!
>>
> 
> Specifically, what problems have you been having with their graphics 
> driver?  Once I turned off framebuffer support in my kernel, all my 
> problems with their driver seem to have disappeared.  Granted, I'm not 
> using the nForce2 chipset, but you might want to try it.  Their graphics 
> driver definitely does not play well with framebuffer 
> support--especially if you have over 512MB RAM.  The nv driver works in 
> all circumstances, but it's not much good for playing Quake3 or several 
> other things.
> 

The system is unstable.  It does the Windows thing and just locks up 
solid ;(  With an ext2 FS it can be a rather unpleasant experience.

Can framebuffer be disabled without rebuilding the kernel?

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