Re: nvidia driver, geforce4, winfast tv2000

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Tony Nugent <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Probably because the nvidia binary-only driver eats insane amounts
> > of vmalloc memory.

> Since it wants 4Mb of the 64Mb video ram (I assume that's what it
> wants), I tried limiting the driver's use to 60Mb in XF86Config
> (VideoRam 61440) but that didn't make any difference.

It's not about gfx card memory ...

> Are there any workarounds possible?

> (With the nvidia driver being binary-only and all, I suspect that
> I'm not going to get very far with this problem).

Not using the binary-only crap?  Maybe fiddeling with the vmalloc
address space settings in one of the kernel header files and recompile
the kernel.

  Gerd

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