Re: [suse-amd64] SUSE9.1 updates from SUSE

28 Jun 2004

      Hi, Brad:

It is very weird.    "cat /proc/driver/nvidia/status" says nothing!
I did not find any NvAGP option in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

However, glxgears running fine (14000 frames per 5.0 secs) and glxinfo
reveals that it is using Nvidia driver.

$ glxinfo
name of display: localhost:11.0
display: localhost:11  screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
server glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.3

I'm completely puzzled.

Tosa
Here is XF86Config file:

minerva:/etc/X11>cat XF86Config
# /.../
# SaX generated XFree86 config file
# Created on: 2004-06-25T17:12:20-0400.
#
# Version: 4.8
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer , 2002
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (4.8)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load         "v4l"
  Load         "extmod"
  Load         "type1"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "dbe"
  Load         "speedo"
  Load         "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "Keyboard"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"
  Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
  DisplaySize  320 240
  HorizSync    31-93
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "1600X1200@75HZ"
  VendorName   "--> VESA"
  VertRefresh  50-75
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline      "1280x1024" 114.54 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1062
  Modeline      "1280x1024" 134.72 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1068
  Modeline      "1152x864" 86.70 1152 1224 1344 1536 864 865 868 896
  Modeline      "1152x864" 102.08 1152 1224 1352 1552 864 865 868 901
  Modeline      "1024x768" 67.48 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 797
  Modeline      "1024x768" 79.52 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 801
  Modeline      "800x600" 40.19 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 623
  Modeline      "800x600" 47.53 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 626
  Modeline      "640x480" 25.10 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 498
  Modeline      "640x480" 29.84 640 664 728 816 480 481 484 501
  Modeline      "1600x1200" 202.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 16
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1600x1200"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      32
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "0x0312"
  BusID        "5:0:0"
  Driver       "nvidia"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "NVidia"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

acsguy@wtp.net wrote:
...
On Friday 25 June 2004 04:19 pm, Yasunari Tosa wrote:
...
Hi,
I did Yast to update the NVidia driver and the kernel (2.6.5-7.75-smp)
after SUSE9.1 installation.
Is this normal to get the following message in /var/log/messages?
I believe that the driver tries to use AGPGART as default since 1.0-1251.
Seeing that it tried to use NVAGP instead, I'd be willing to bet you have an 
old option in your XF86Config file to the effect of Option 'NvAGP' '1' which 
was maybe a past fix for an unstable AGPGART.
If you remove that option line from XF86Config, it won't try to use it 
anymore.
If you have AGPGART statically linked in you kernel, it is impossible to use 
NvAGP anyway.
The important thing is to check your /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status file to 
see that AGP was enabled and what it is using for driver and what the X rate 
is.
Pertinent section of README is included below
(you can get to readme from .run file by using the --extract-only param when 
you run it)
Option "NvAGP" "integer"
               Configure AGP support. Integer argument can be one of:
               0 : disable agp 
               1 : use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible 
               2 : use AGPGART, if possible 
               3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP) 
               Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot
               work if AGPGART is either statically compiled into your
               kernel or is built as a module, but loaded into your
               kernel (some distributions load AGPGART into the kernel
               at boot up).  Default: 3 (the default was 1 until after
               1.0-1251).
B-)
...
Jun 25 18:05:47 minerva kernel: 1: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve
symbol table
Jun 25 18:05:47 minerva kernel: 1: NVRM: not using NVAGP, kernel was
compiled with GART_IOMMU support!!
Thank you.
Tosa
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