On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
this. rivafb, nvidiafb and nouveau (which are all enabled in our kernel) conflict. Unless there are good reasons not to, I suggest at least disabling rivafb and nvidiafb.
I asked about this in #nouveau (as I don't have much clue about nvidia drivers/hardware): [09:12] <tomegun> [...] any reason at all to keep the old nvidiafb/rivafb modules around in a standard kernel, or are their usecases covered well by nouveau these days? [09:13] <airlied> should all be covered by nouveau really, maybe some ppc corner cases [...] [09:17] <RSpliet> NV03 (nVidia Riva 128) is not supported by nouveau [09:17] <RSpliet> dropping... well... probably rivafb, might cause small problems on these ancient machines (1998) [09:18] <tomegun> RSpliet: ah, ok. thanks [09:19] <pq> or maybe they'd better use a generic fb driver... [09:20] <RSpliet> pq: sounds sane too -t