[COLUG] Nvidia and ATI

[Duane]

Rob Stampfli wrote:

> My understanding (from the mysterious Franco again) is that the
> video cards for laptops may be slightly different than the ones for
> desktops and may require special vendor drivers.  That was made in
> reference to a Windows environment, but hardware is hardware so
> perhaps it is true that the vanilla Linux nvidia driver doesn't
> interoperate with them well.  All I can say is that it works for me.

I don't really understand what the problem was/is beyond the system 
doing memory allocations for PCI space or something to a very high part 
that it probably shouldn't have, dunno, anyone interested in an actual 
explanation can have a look here:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=96613

That link also has a patch that works, although it's for 256M of vram, 
mine has 512M.

Anyways to fix it the following post explains how to do this the 
'debian' way:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=113682&page=2#24

Although his post indicates rebuilding the modules this isn't needed, 
only the kernel needs to be rebuilt.

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