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 Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@inhex.net>
Subject: Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] Remove nvidia from the balcklist ?
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Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 00:51 +0300, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:45:17AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>>     
>>>> If we can do a version test, I'm all for that. However, all the recent
>>>> NVidia drivers since at least mid-April 2008 have had good PM support
>>>> for both S2D and S2R (even w/o TuxOnIce).
>>>>         
>>> I think we should be blacklisting up to a particular version. If someone
>>> can tell me what version, I'll happily commit the change to svn.
>>>       
>> I think, that 173.06 is first version with major PM improvements (see my
>> mail to tuxonice-users@ dated Tue, 6 May 2008 19:09:28 +0300)
>>     
>
> Hmm. This is all moot, it seems. The nvidia kernel module doesn't show
> in modinfo what version it is, so (assuming I'm reading the blacklist
> instructions right) we can't use it to determine whether the module
> needs unloading.
>
> I guess, if that's the case, that we need to get 'fuzzy' and say nvidia
> loading is needed prior to kernel version 2.6.26. Any other ideas?
>
> Nigel
>
>   
Well at least it works well with lLinux 2.6.26 and 
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2.run :)

Xavier