Multi-card nVidia driver patch

Bob Richmond bob at lorez.org
Wed Dec 16 23:18:50 CET 2009


Fair enough.

On 12/16/2009 02:15 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:

> 2009/12/16 Bob Richmond<bob at lorez.org>:
>> The new vga arbiter API in Fedora 12's kernel breaks the nVidia driver when
>> used with multiple cards. Drivers that don't need legacy VGA I/O are
>> supposed to opt-out of VGA Arbitration.
>>
>> I posted a patch to nvnews last night that is working for a few people
>> (including myself) for multi-card configurations.
>>
>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142656
>>
>> Can the nvidia driver maintainer incorporate the patch in the rpmfusion
>> package? The patch is attached.
>>
>
> No, As I need a comment about this from a nvidia dev
> (patches goes upstream, then can eventually be backported).
>
> Nicolas (kwizart)


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