Bug 187454

Summary:	nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185 breaks AGP FW and SBA options
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Hurst <a.hurst>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Hurst 2007-08-02 02:34:59 UTC

Since nvidia-legacy-drivers was merged back into nvidia-drivers again, forcing me to use driver version 1.0.7185, instead of 1.0.7184, the driver registry does not respond to settings in /etc/modules.d/nvidia which are designed to enable FW and SBA options in the AGP driver.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update to nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185
2. cat /proc/drivers/nvidia/registry
3. note EnableSAGPBA and EnableAGPFW flags unaffected by options in /etc/modules.d/nvidia

Actual Results:  
/proc/drivers/nvidia/registry contains EnableAGPSBA: 0, and EnableAGPFW: 0

Expected Results:  
/proc/drivers/nvidia/registry would contain EnableAGPSBA: 1, and EnableAGPFW: 1, as stipulated by the line "options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1" in /etc/modules.d/nvidia


I think these worked fine in driver version 1.0.7184, but since the ebuild for this has been scrapped, I can't check.

Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-02 13:45:16 UTC

Since this is a closed source driver there is nothing we can do. Please use nVidia's Linux support resources, which include e-mail support at linux-bugs@nvidia.com as well as their forum at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14