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From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>
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Subject: Re: problem with nvidia graphics card and -current
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On Tuesday, 05 August 2003 14:34, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> 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.
I'm also running a system with the vesa module loaded. I'm also running ACPI.