Re: [opensuse] Anyone running nvidia GeForce 7600 with proprietary drivers?
On Friday 05 Mar 2010 22:03:15 you wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
On Friday 05 Mar 2010 18:53:39 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 03/05/2010 11:33 AM, Bob Williams pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 22:41:31 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote: [...]
When you go to this site, with the laptop in question, which one is recommended?
Sorry about the delay in replying, I've been away.
That website (well, the UK version) recommends 195.36.08 for GeForce Go 7 series, but on the supported hardware page it omits to mention the Go 7600.
Bob
That's because the 7600 is part of the 7 series. I have an 8400 that is part of the 8 series of cards.
Supported Products:
GeForce 7 series: 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7100 GS, 7800 GS, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 620i, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i, 7650 GS, 7300 GS, 7300 GT, 7550 LE, 7800 SLI, 7900 GT/GTO, 7300 LE, 7800 GTX, 7950 GX2, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7900 GTX, 7900 GS, 7950 GT, 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7350 LE, 7600 LE, 7600 GT, 7500 LE, 7300 SE / 7200 GS, 7600 GS
GeForce Go 7 series: Go 7950 GTX, Go 7900 GS, Go 7900 GTX, Go 7800 GTX
Why omit the _Go_ 7600 from this list?
... because it's not supported? That's my experience :(
The 7600 uses the G02 driver. The GO 7600 uses the older G01 driver.
I had this same sort of issue with my laptop. Go into yast, uninstall Nvidia driver G02, and install G01.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that driver did the same as the G02 driver. Looks like I'm stuck with the 'nv' driver. Oh, well :) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
The 7600 uses the G02 driver. The GO 7600 uses the older G01 driver.
I had this same sort of issue with my laptop. Go into yast, uninstall Nvidia driver G02, and install G01.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that driver did the same as the G02 driver. Looks like I'm stuck with the 'nv' driver. Oh, well :)
I have not followed the whole thread from the beginning, but I have a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card and I use the proprietary without any problems. lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1) vitalstatistix:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia nvidia-settings-190.53-1.pm.1.1.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG02-190.53-9.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64 -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre.truter@gmail.com | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ Sometimes my mind wanders; other times it leaves completely. ~ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 06 Mar 2010 13:18:55 Andre Truter wrote:
The 7600 uses the G02 driver. The GO 7600 uses the older G01 driver.
I had this same sort of issue with my laptop. Go into yast, uninstall Nvidia driver G02, and install G01.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that driver did the same as the G02 driver. Looks like I'm stuck with the 'nv' driver. Oh, well :)
I have not followed the whole thread from the beginning, but I have a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card and I use the proprietary without any problems.
lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
vitalstatistix:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia nvidia-settings-190.53-1.pm.1.1.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG02-190.53-9.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64
Thank you. It's good to know that others have got this working, but as I said earlier, I have tried this driver, and the G01 version without any success. I'm beginning to think that this machine is a bit special. It is made by Toshiba, and was sold as a full featured media centre, with HDTV, an onboard sound amplifier, and running a Toshiba'd version of Windows Media Centre. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 01:40:31 Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 06 Mar 2010 13:18:55 Andre Truter wrote:
The 7600 uses the G02 driver. The GO 7600 uses the older G01 driver.
I had this same sort of issue with my laptop. Go into yast, uninstall Nvidia driver G02, and install G01.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that driver did the same as the G02 driver. Looks like I'm stuck with the 'nv' driver. Oh, well :)
I have not followed the whole thread from the beginning, but I have a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card and I use the proprietary without any problems.
lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
vitalstatistix:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia nvidia-settings-190.53-1.pm.1.1.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG02-190.53-9.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64
Thank you. It's good to know that others have got this working, but as I said earlier, I have tried this driver, and the G01 version without any success. I'm beginning to think that this machine is a bit special. It is made by Toshiba, and was sold as a full featured media centre, with HDTV, an onboard sound amplifier, and running a Toshiba'd version of Windows Media Centre.
Bob
Bob, I have found that in some cases I've had to build both the kernel and the nvidia driver from sources to get them working (usually if the kernel and the drivers were built with different versions of gcc). I agree that in this case if you've used both the kernel and the proprietary driver from official or build-service repositories that shouldn't be an issue but it might be worth a try. What kernel version are you running? That can be important too - the nvidia opensuse drivers in the nvidia repositories all seem to be built against kernel 2.6.31-5, and will the kernel module will only load if the version matches. If you're running a later kernel you'll have to build the drivers against your running kernel (and to do that you'll need to have the kernel sources installed and prep'd). After installing the proprietary drivers, once you've got the proprietary drivers installed, try running lsmod | grep 'nv' and see if the nvidia kernel module is actually loaded. If it is, there may be another issue that I tripped over on my desktop and laptop at different times. When you get dumped back to the console after entering runlevel 5, try logging on as root and running startx. If that works, the problem is with the display manager config, not the graphics driver. I fixed it on mine by opening the sysconfig editor in Yast, changing the display manager from kdm4 to kdm and resaving it. Don't ask me why it fixed it, I have no idea. But it did. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 01:40:31 Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 06 Mar 2010 13:18:55 Andre Truter wrote:
The 7600 uses the G02 driver. The GO 7600 uses the older G01 driver.
I had this same sort of issue with my laptop. Go into yast, uninstall Nvidia driver G02, and install G01.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that driver did the same as the G02 driver. Looks like I'm stuck with the 'nv' driver. Oh, well :)
I have not followed the whole thread from the beginning, but I have a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card and I use the proprietary without any problems.
lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
vitalstatistix:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia nvidia-settings-190.53-1.pm.1.1.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG02-190.53-9.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64
Thank you. It's good to know that others have got this working, but as I said earlier, I have tried this driver, and the G01 version without any success. I'm beginning to think that this machine is a bit special. It is made by Toshiba, and was sold as a full featured media centre, with HDTV, an onboard sound amplifier, and running a Toshiba'd version of Windows Media Centre.
Bob
Bob, There is one other thing you should look at that I've just tripped over on my desktop: when the X server fails to start after the nvidia proprietary driver is installed, please check the last 10 lines or so of dmesg to see if the following error message appears: vmap allocation failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size. If it does, please add "vmalloc=128MB" to your kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (without the quotes), reboot and see what happens. If it still fails to load, check dmesg again - you may need to increase the parameter to 256MB. That worked for me after someone accidentally hit the reset button on my desktop and it refused to start X with the newest nvidia drivers. I found the solution on google. Regards, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 07 Mar 2010 12:05:49 Rodney Baker wrote:
Bob, There is one other thing you should look at that I've just tripped over on my desktop: when the X server fails to start after the nvidia proprietary driver is installed, please check the last 10 lines or so of dmesg to see if the following error message appears:
vmap allocation failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
If it does, please add "vmalloc=128MB" to your kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (without the quotes), reboot and see what happens. If it still fails to load, check dmesg again - you may need to increase the parameter to 256MB. That worked for me after someone accidentally hit the reset button on my desktop and it refused to start X with the newest nvidia drivers. I found the solution on google.
Regards, Rodney.
Rodney, Many thanks for this suggestion, and the one in your previous message. I'd missed them earlier as I'd not kept my eye on further activity in this thread. I'm going away tomorrow for a few weeks, but I'll certainly give it another try on my return. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop, KDE 4.3.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 03:40:36 Bob Williams wrote:
On Sunday 07 Mar 2010 12:05:49 Rodney Baker wrote:
Bob, There is one other thing you should look at that I've just tripped over on
my desktop: when the X server fails to start after the nvidia proprietary driver is installed, please check the last 10 lines or so of dmesg to see
if the following error message appears: vmap allocation failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
If it does, please add "vmalloc=128MB" to your kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (without the quotes), reboot and see what happens. If
it still fails to load, check dmesg again - you may need to increase the parameter to 256MB. That worked for me after someone accidentally hit the reset button on my desktop and it refused to start X with the newest nvidia drivers. I found the solution on google.
Regards, Rodney.
Rodney,
Many thanks for this suggestion, and the one in your previous message. I'd missed them earlier as I'd not kept my eye on further activity in this thread. I'm going away tomorrow for a few weeks, but I'll certainly give it another try on my return.
Bob
Holiday or work trip? Either way, safe travels and let us know how you get on after your return. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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