On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:53:59PM -0000, Gaetan Nadon wrote: > The only physical card I have and I am using is the GTS 250. I do not > have access to other cards. I agree that caution dictates testing the > real card. > > My main motivation is the out-of-the-box experience for new adopters of > Ubuntu who will purchase new PCs. If not having the ids in still allow > them to have a desktop and the restricted driver manager offers an > alternative, this is good. Same goes for those who upgrade PC with a new > card.
Yeah, if the pci id is missing it should normally bump them down to -vesa, which generally works on everything. From there they can log in and go to hardware drivers to pick -nvidia, or whatever. Putting pci id's in for -nv before we know whether it works would make it use -nv instead of -vesa, which would result in the user getting a hang, corruption, or other critical failure on boot, preventing them from installing or using Ubuntu. For more info about this, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/OnlyLoadsVesa > Regarding the GTX 200 series: > As for the GTX 200 series, I found evidence on the Ubuntu forum that it works > with the nv driver (which surprises me): > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1067443 > All 4 cards in this series have the same new GT200b GPU. > > I also found this article: > "This morning NVIDIA had unveiled the GeForce GTX 200 series and already > NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner has committed support for these cards to the > open-source xf86-video-nv driver. This support just involved adding in two > new PCI IDs for the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280. No other work was needed, > since of course this driver is limited to mode-setting and 2D acceleration." > > Regarding the missing ids in the list of existing bugs: > I have not read in details to find if the cards worked or not. I compared the > latest nv_driver.c and the nvidia 173 (latest I could find) driver device ids. > > This is all the information I can contribute. You analyze the risk, I'll > support the decision you make. > Let me know if I can do something else to help. > Thanks > > -- > Jaunty: add support for NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 card > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348262 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, > which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu. -- Jaunty: add support for NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348262 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
