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["Joshua V. Dillon" <jvdillon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eva, et. al.  Firstly--great work.  It is very exciting to see those 
LEDs ON!
I was having some permission error in switching between speed/stamina 
modes (as indicated on web page) but with randomly rmmod/echo/insmod 
repetitions it eventually it seems to accept the change.
Before getting to the [below], I want to mention that I am only sending 
this out to see if others share my experience.  Again, great work so far!
Short version: I have (rev ff) on both cards so I am wondering if this 
is why I still can't use nvidia (only tried 180.29).
Long version:
I am curious if you were able to install the nvidia drivers.  I was able 
to get past the initial hardware compatibility check present in 
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run. However I am not able to get X running 
(don't have the precise error any more, but it was saying the GPU is not 
recognized).  Anyway, according to nvidia the 9300M GS chip-set should 
be supported so I am thinking that something in this module is still not 
setting up everything from from properly recognizing it.
As you can see,
$ lspci |grep -i nv
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9300M GS 
(rev ff)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI 
Express Graphics Port (rev ff)
Which is essentially as before, except the rev ff.  I do not think this 
was the revision before (I can restart if someone wants me to find out). 
 The fact that it is 0xFF is really what caught my eye--I think this is 
an unlikely code.  And I also think that it is causing or related to the 
nvidia module not recognizing the GPU on X start.
If anyone has thoughts, I'd appreciate hearing them!

Cheers,

Josh


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Joshua V. Dillon
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cell: 765-532-4643
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