[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-nv 2.1.10

[Rene Rebe]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:32:08PM +0200, Rene Rebe wrote:
> 
>> Urgs, now that is dirty. I give it a try nonetheless :-)
>>
>> Who implemented this grave hack? Some thread of problem discussion
>> somewhere?
> 
> Me. The copy of the video BIOS in the c000 segment is patched at POST to 
> prevent it being reexecuted (as it may make calls into system BIOS code 
> that no longer exists), so we need to run the stashed copy. The 
> information I have is that this is safe for g80 - it certainly doesn't 
> seem reliable on older hardware. No clue about g90 yet.

Now I wish I would have got an older MacBook Pro with ATi
chip, or some Intel one, yuck.

Thank you for all that info, I'll give it a try the next time
I can wreck^Wreboot my book.

Yours,

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