Just another Problem with NVIDIA GeForce MX 4000
Hi! I've got a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 card because it's supposed to be "Linux compatible". I have SuSe 9.1 and as suggested I first installed the "Download NVIDIA(r) Graphics Driver" patch with YOU and startet sax2. But sax2 only found a "vesa compatible" card: # sax2 -p Chip: 0 is -> VESA Framebuffer Graphics 01:00:0 0x10de 0x0185 AGP fbdev So I tried the 6629-Driver from from the nvidia-homepage, but to no avail. Then I replaced the 'Driver "vesa"' line in /etc/X11/XF86Config with 'Driver "nvidia"' but then kdm and even sax2 came up any more (the system hangs with a black screen, even Ctrl+Alt+Bksp don't work. But when I try Ctrl+Alt+Del a messed up NVIDIA splash screen appears after some time and then the system reboots). I needed to use 'sax2 -l' to be able to start sax2 again. I read the other posts in this list concerning the MX 4000 problems and tried the 6111-driver as Barrie Hill suggested. I even recompiled the Kernel without the RivaFB-module but to no avail. Now I'm running it as a "Vesa-compatible card", wich makes no sense. Maybe someone has still an idea? Help would be highly appreciated. Sincerely David Some datas: wu:~ # uname -a Linux wu 2.6.5-7.111.30-default #2 Thu Jan 27 01:25:26 CET 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux wu:~ # rpm -q XFree86 XFree86-4.3.99.902-43.28 wu:~ # rpm -q XFree86-server-glx XFree86-server-glx-4.3.99.902-40 /var/log/messages when I try to start sax2 and then reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Del after I got a blank screen: Jan 30 21:41:20 wu kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. Jan 30 21:41:20 wu kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6111 Tue Jul 27 07:55:38 PDT 2004 Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:42:11 wu init: Switching to runlevel: 6 Jan 30 21:42:18 wu kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Jan 30 21:42:18 wu kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Jan 30 21:42:18 wu rpc.mountd: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. Jan 30 21:42:18 wu sshd[2775]: Received signal 15; terminating. Jan 30 21:42:23 wu kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Jan 30 21:42:23 wu kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Jan 30 21:42:24 wu exiting on signal 15 Maybe relevant part of dmesg: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected SiS 741 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 wu:/var/log # tail nvidia-installer.log executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'... -> done. -> Driver file installation is complete. -> Running post-install sanity check: -> done. -> Sanity check passed. -> Shared memory test passed. -> Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 (version: 1.0-6111) is now complete. On SuSE Linux/United Linux please use SaX2 now to enable the NVIDIA driver. If you need more information/log files I can post it or send to you directly.
Do you also have an on-board video card? Almost sounds like a resource conflict to me... B-) On Sunday 30 January 2005 03:13 pm, David Ongaro wrote:
Hi!
I've got a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 card because it's supposed to be "Linux compatible". I have SuSe 9.1 and as suggested I first installed the "Download NVIDIA(r) Graphics Driver" patch with YOU and startet sax2. But sax2 only found a "vesa compatible" card:
# sax2 -p Chip: 0 is -> VESA Framebuffer Graphics 01:00:0 0x10de 0x0185 AGP fbdev
So I tried the 6629-Driver from from the nvidia-homepage, but to no avail. Then I replaced the 'Driver "vesa"' line in /etc/X11/XF86Config with 'Driver "nvidia"' but then kdm and even sax2 came up any more (the system hangs with a black screen, even Ctrl+Alt+Bksp don't work. But when I try Ctrl+Alt+Del a messed up NVIDIA splash screen appears after some time and then the system reboots). I needed to use 'sax2 -l' to be able to start sax2 again.
I read the other posts in this list concerning the MX 4000 problems and tried the 6111-driver as Barrie Hill suggested. I even recompiled the Kernel without the RivaFB-module but to no avail. Now I'm running it as a "Vesa-compatible card", wich makes no sense.
Maybe someone has still an idea? Help would be highly appreciated.
Sincerely David
Some datas:
wu:~ # uname -a Linux wu 2.6.5-7.111.30-default #2 Thu Jan 27 01:25:26 CET 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux wu:~ # rpm -q XFree86 XFree86-4.3.99.902-43.28 wu:~ # rpm -q XFree86-server-glx XFree86-server-glx-4.3.99.902-40
/var/log/messages when I try to start sax2 and then reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Del after I got a blank screen:
Jan 30 21:41:20 wu kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. Jan 30 21:41:20 wu kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6111 Tue Jul 27 07:55:38 PDT 2004 Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:42:11 wu init: Switching to runlevel: 6 Jan 30 21:42:18 wu kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Jan 30 21:42:18 wu kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Jan 30 21:42:18 wu rpc.mountd: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. Jan 30 21:42:18 wu sshd[2775]: Received signal 15; terminating. Jan 30 21:42:23 wu kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Jan 30 21:42:23 wu kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Jan 30 21:42:24 wu exiting on signal 15
Maybe relevant part of dmesg:
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected SiS 741 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
wu:/var/log # tail nvidia-installer.log executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'... -> done. -> Driver file installation is complete. -> Running post-install sanity check: -> done. -> Sanity check passed. -> Shared memory test passed. -> Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 (version: 1.0-6111) is now complete. On SuSE Linux/United Linux please use SaX2 now to enable the NVIDIA driver.
If you need more information/log files I can post it or send to you directly.
Brad Bourn wrote:
Do you also have an on-board video card?
Yes, I have a K7S41GX Mainboard with SiS741GX Chipset with an *AGP 8X*/4X 1.5V Slot and an onboard so-called "Integrated Real 256E 3D Graphics" VGA-Card (although sax2 detected a SIS xxx Card (don't remember the number too well)) and max 64 MB shared memory.
Almost sounds like a resource conflict to me...
Maybe, but how can I find out? And since I inserted this MX 4000 card the BIOS seems to have completly turned of this onboard card (the shared memory is now counted as main-memory, and sax doesn't detect anymore this SIS-Card.) 'lsmod|grep -i sis' yields sis_agp 7424 1 agpgart 30888 1 sis_agp sis900 19716 0 So it seems only the SiS AGP and Ethernet drivers are left. There also seems to be a PCI-Version of the MX 4000 so I should note that my is an AGP-Card. David
hmmmm shouldn't be resource conflict with AGP I would stick with the driver installed by YOU first, until you get it working. Once the "update" is done, I would manually change the XF86Config file for the "nvidia" driver (only change this one thing to start with) then run "modprobe nvidia" manually. Sometimes it won't load until you do it manually for the first time. Then, it is a matter of issuing startx's and checking the /var/log/XFree86.log with "cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | grep NV" and /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status You should see something like this (XFree86.0.log) (--) PCI:*(2:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] rev 161, Mem @ 0xf8000000/24, 0xf0000000/27 (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" (II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-5332 Fri Jan 9 12:43:30 PST 2004 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found and (/proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status) Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 8x Fast Writes: Enabled SBA: Enabled Information from those two sources would be helpful. B-) On Monday 31 January 2005 10:05 am, David Ongaro wrote:
Brad Bourn wrote:
Do you also have an on-board video card?
Yes, I have a K7S41GX Mainboard with SiS741GX Chipset with an *AGP 8X*/4X 1.5V Slot and an onboard so-called "Integrated Real 256E 3D Graphics" VGA-Card (although sax2 detected a SIS xxx Card (don't remember the number too well)) and max 64 MB shared memory.
Almost sounds like a resource conflict to me...
Maybe, but how can I find out? And since I inserted this MX 4000 card the BIOS seems to have completly turned of this onboard card (the shared memory is now counted as main-memory, and sax doesn't detect anymore this SIS-Card.) 'lsmod|grep -i sis' yields
sis_agp 7424 1 agpgart 30888 1 sis_agp sis900 19716 0
So it seems only the SiS AGP and Ethernet drivers are left.
There also seems to be a PCI-Version of the MX 4000 so I should note that my is an AGP-Card.
David
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