out of range

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Oct 21 04:24:54 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>>>> ----
>>>>> I too am using a Shuttle...something like an SN41G2 which has built-in
>>>>> nvidia but as far as I know, nvidia has yet to release a proprietary
>>>>> blob binary driver for it (9600).
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>     GeForce 9600 GT                                           0x0622
>>>>     GeForce 9600 GS                                           0x0623
>>>>
>>>> is supported in 173.14.05.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> you may be right...the last time I checked, it just flat didn't work.
>>>
>>> from lspci...
>>> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX
>>> - nForce GPU] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
>>>         Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>>         Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>>>         Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
>>>         [virtual] Expansion ROM at e8080000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>>>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>>>         Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
>>>         Kernel modules: rivafb, nvidiafb
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'm a bit confused....
>>
>> At the top you seem to be talking about the "GeForce 9600" but the
>> output of your lspci seems to show "GeForce4 MX".  The GeForce4 MX is no
>> longer supported in the latest releases from nVidia.  One needs to use
>> the legacy drivers.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>     
> ----
> on F8, I used the 9600 driver without issue.
>
> Craig
>
>   
Sorry, I don't follow....what is a "9600" driver? 

I only know the nvidia.ko driver and "nv" driver. 

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