hi,

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 07:37:17PM +1000, stomfisite wrote:
> I had a similar problem on my nVidia AMD 64 set up, but it went away
> on non nvidia mother boards. I analyzed the problem was because the
> nvidia motherboard uses proprietary firmware that needs to loaded by
> the kernel boot process. The firmware isn't part of a true OSS
> distro like Dyne. Maybe you have a similar problem.

Nvidia is coping with trusted-computing (aka death-of-consumer-rights)
and this is not the first time i hear of such a problem.

i suggest to avoid buying any nvidia product, but if you have one, this
is the place where to ask a solution
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

ciao

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