Re: iMac/nvidia & sleep
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:06:03PM -0800, Michael M. wrote:
> Guido Guenther wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:02:40PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> >
> >>The rivafb kernel support varies somewhat. Depending on the precise model,
> >>stuff like backlight control may work, or may break. Guido Guenther used
> >>to keep rivafb patches on the net, so you may want to google around. Sleep
> >>support with rivafb I doubt somewhat. Suspend to disk might work though.
> >
> >Rivafb is working quiet on NV17, NV3X although it's been mostly replaced
> >by nvidiafb these days. Brightness Control should work with both
> >drivers (only used rivafb so far though) and suspend to disks works out
> >of the box with recent 2.6. kernels - suspend is a no go, as you said.
> >What does lspci tell about the card, I can't seem to find a MX 400 in
> >the kernel's current pci_ids.
>
> lspci -
> 0000:00:10:00 vga compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11
> [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (revb2)
>
> 00:10:00? I thought it was PCI:00:16:00 when I reconfigured either xorg
> or XF86.
This is basically the "bus Id", you can get the pci id of the device
with "lspci -n".
>
> Is 2.6.8 a recent enough kernel?
The last rivafb fixes went into 2.6.11.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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