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[Alexandre Kaspar <alexandre.kaspar@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I just got a big problem with the nvidia graphics card with the new  
kernel 2.6.30 on Fedora.
The intel one is working well. No problem.

The nvidia is... not working with the nvidia driver (last one 180...).  
But it works with 'vesa' or 'nv', or even 'nouveau' (but who cares ...  
we don't want them except nouveau...). I actually need the nvidia one  
for 3d fast computing (a reason why I bought this
Actually, I searched a lot and find out how to solve the current problem.

I don't know if you have the same problem, but I share my solution to  
you so that it may help someone :

Add a vmalloc=196M parameter to the kernel so that there is enough  
memory for the nvidia driver.
Actually, I got the solution from this thread :
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=42278

I don't know if 196M is the good value (I may try some other values...  
I think the less which is working is the best for it doesn't take too  
much memory).

Anyway, it solved the problem for me (and I'm now really happy :D).
Hope that can help.

Alexandre Kaspar

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