Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

From: Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 19:39:56 EST


On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Thanks to some nice people in #NVIDIA I found what seems to be a
> > solution; compile with processor type as "K6". No segfaults, lost
> > terminfo or disabled consoles.
> > So are there issues with the K7 processor code? Bleh, never mind, I have
> > no idea what I am talking about.
> The K7 optimisations are not used for I/O space accessess. Or shouldnt be,
> but the nvidia code is unreadable so they may have done so

Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your
filesystems broken.

-Dan

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