Integrity changes from other Linux

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:45 PM, art <artmartz at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> Chris Mohler wrote:
>> How strange.  I upgraded my laptop to Intrepid last night and the
>> nvidia driver is working perfectly (geforce 8600).  Guess I "proved"
>> getting nVidia working *is* possible...
> I've got an HP Pavilion laptop with the nvidia geforce 8600m gs with
> 512mb dedicated memory.  Is this similar to yours?  And are you using
> the 3d mode?
> Art

Hi Art,

I don't usually run the 3D effects, but I just enabled them and
everything seems to work OK.

Here's what 'lspci -v' shows about my video card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 0228
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at ef00 [size=128]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at fea00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
	Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
	Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information <?>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nvidia

Chris