[NTLUG:Discuss] Promise Ultra100 TX2 on linux?

[Darin W. Smith]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:31:26 -0500, Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:
> OBTW, I may have forgotten to followup on the A7N8X problems, sorry. I've 
> found the issue to be the Nvidia graphics driver combined with this MB.  
> When I switched from the nvidia driver to the nv XFree86 driver my 
> problems vanished.  I like the nvidia driver and I think it is a good 
> solution but I'd really like to see them stop playing these games with 
> ASUS (and others like ATI) compatibility.  They're acting a little too 
> much like M$!!
>

Specifically, what problems have you been having with their graphics 
driver?  Once I turned off framebuffer support in my kernel, all my 
problems with their driver seem to have disappeared.  Granted, I'm not 
using the nForce2 chipset, but you might want to try it.  Their graphics 
driver definitely does not play well with framebuffer support--especially 
if you have over 512MB RAM.  The nv driver works in all circumstances, but 
it's not much good for playing Quake3 or several other things.

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