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Subject: Re: problem with nvidia graphics card and -current
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> Question for the developers: Is there someway to avoid having the
> combination of vesa and nvidia cause a total lockup of the machine?  I
> have a feeling I may not be the last person to try the nvidia driver
> with vesa enabled, either as a module, or compiled in the kernel.

I'm running a system with the VESA stuff compiled in; the nvidia drivers
work just fine.

IIRC you're running with ACPI; try not doing that.

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