Multi-card nVidia driver patch

Bob Richmond bob at lorez.org
Fri Jan 8 02:05:08 CET 2010


Does this qualify?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142656

On 12/16/2009 02:18 PM, Bob Richmond wrote:

> 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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