> Made the changes to nv_driver.c and built xenocara with the following > > # cd /usr/xenocara > # rm -rf /usr/xobj/* > # make bootstrap > # make obj > # make build > > Upon reboot when i use the "nv" driver X now recognizes my card, but > it goes to a blank screen (just looks like the terminal) and crashes. > > And yes i would love to have a laptop without Nvidia but this is what > my office gave me. I'm just happy they let me run other systems on it. > Or at least try.
Yeah, sorry for giving you false hope.. looking further in that file alone shows that the driver checks against the product ID's multiple times. In fact, near the botton where it attempts to assign the NV_ARCH you can see it ends up identifing your card as a NV04 (..ancient), by default. I not going to pretend to understand the driver, but perhaps this is member of the G80 family? find the "NVIsG80" function and add 0x0531 to the list of known chipsets. If this fails, I'm sorry.. nVidia really blows chunks eh? -Bryan.
