On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:04, S.Toms wrote:

On 16 Jan 2002, Steven Hatfield wrote:

sh> Hello, sh> I'm trying to take a little impromptu poll here... sh> sh> Who on this list has an nVidia GeForce2/3 card, is running the "real" sh> nVidia drivers, and is experiencing system lockups? sh>

Take a look in the archives for the posts dealing with the following:

Geforce3 Ti and the Black Screen of Death

--snip-- So it's not just me after all... hrmph. I have a better idea. Yank the p.o.s. out of the machine and replace it with a card that doesn't lock up. I have a spare Matrox G400 around here somewhere.. now where's my screwdriver?! :-) -Steven

Well, I have the same Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra card that I've had since Xmas 1999 and it works perfectly with Linux. I've only had issues if I run KDM/XDM which ARE SO unnessassary it isn't even funny. I have just about every 3D game loki has put out and I even play a Burgertime clone (yes, I'm old..and a sucker for this game *shrug*) and I never have any issues. I've played Soldier of Fortune for as much as 10 hours straight online and never had even so much as a slow down. There must be a common cause for all these issues such as KDM...because I doubt I am all that special that I can get this stuff to run great. I've configured 3 of my co-workers machines that have nVidia cards and they haven't reported so much as a minor hiccup...and one of them has a brand new Dell 8100 laptop with a GeForce GO chipset in it. The Dell did have issues with APM w/ 2.4.10 but installing 2.4.16 fixed this right up. I would love to see nVidia's take on all this and do people have just as many issues with nVidia under other OS's..such as Mac and Windows. It just seems strange to me. * Mike Reith (reith@bigfoot.com) [020117 17:12]: ->Shucks, I'm running the original GeForce 256 and I have problems. With 3D ->enabled, Konqueror as a file manager freezes with strange flickering of the ->right side scroll bar. Any attempt to change the video configuration through ->YaST or SaX results in a "black screen of death" -> ->Alas, Nvidia and Linux just don't like each other. Any ideas from others ->concerning a different brand of card that works reliably with SuSE Linux? I ->had been thinking of upgrading to a newer GeForce, but after all of these ->comments, I don't think so . . . -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...

Do you have /boot formatted with reiserfs? - Alexey. _____ < http://trelony.cjb.net/ > Alexey N. Solofnenko < http://www.inventigo.com/ > Inventigo LLC Pleasant Hill, CA (GMT-8 usually)

It works on my computer, but reiserfs should be loaded in initrd. - Alexey. _____ < http://trelony.cjb.net/ > Alexey N. Solofnenko < http://www.inventigo.com/ > Inventigo LLC Pleasant Hill, CA (GMT-8 usually)

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 01:03, Jason A.Van Cleve wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:38:23 -0800, Ben Rosenberg said:

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straight online and never had even so much as a slow down. There must be a common cause for all these issues such as KDM...because I doubt I am

I don't think it's KDM. I'm running Enlightenment alone, started directly from text mode, and I've had freezes too, wierd stuff like I can't do anything but move the mouse cursor around. I have a Geforce2 GTS card. Just installed XF86 4.1.0, though, and so far so good, but it's too soon to be sure. . . .

--Jason Van Cleve

Yep, exactly what I'm experiencing - run level 3 with WindowMaker -- only able to move the mouse cursor around. I did figure out that I can ssh into the box from another machine that I have, and reboot that way... but it just feels so... Windows. I just wish I could afford an ATI Radeon 8500 :) -Steven

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 19:58, Mike Reith wrote:

Shucks, I'm running the original GeForce 256 and I have problems. With 3D enabled, Konqueror as a file manager freezes with strange flickering of the right side scroll bar. Any attempt to change the video configuration through YaST or SaX results in a "black screen of death"

Alas, Nvidia and Linux just don't like each other. Any ideas from others concerning a different brand of card that works reliably with SuSE Linux? I had been thinking of upgrading to a newer GeForce, but after all of these comments, I don't think so . . .

Mike R

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-----Original Message----- From: Steven Hatfield [mailto:ashari@knightswood.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:08 PMs To: SuSE Linux English Subject: Re: [SLE] Re: nVidia Cards and Lockups

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On 16 Jan 2002, Steven Hatfield wrote:

sh> Hello, sh> I'm trying to take a little impromptu poll here... sh> sh> Who on this list has an nVidia GeForce2/3 card, is running

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:04, S.Toms wrote: the "real"

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sh> nVidia drivers, and is experiencing system lockups? sh>

Take a look in the archives for the posts dealing with the following:

Geforce3 Ti and the Black Screen of Death

--snip--

So it's not just me after all... hrmph. I have a better idea. Yank the p.o.s. out of the machine and replace it with a card that doesn't lock up.

I have a spare Matrox G400 around here somewhere.. now where's my screwdriver?! :-)

-Steven

Well, I just installed a Matrox G400 32MB Dual Head card that I had in a drawer, and I'm petty impressed with Matrox's MGA PowerDesk software! The installation procedure was easy. 1) Go out to: http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_09.cfm ...and download the newest mga driver and mga powerdesk software for Linux. Do not install them yet, as SaX2 in step 5 will probably replace the newer mga driver with the older one. 2) If your machine is set to bring up X at bootup, you need to set the machine to boot up in run level 3 in /etc/inittab (networking w/o X). The line you are looking for is "id:5:initdefault:" if you don't already know. Just change the 5 to a 3. If you are running SuSE, the /etc/rc.config file might be set to automagically change your inittab back to runlevel 5... so you might want to edit it and change: CHECK_INITTAB="yes" to CHECK_INITTAB="no" and run /sbin/SuSEconfig as root. 3) Copy your /etc/X11/XF86Config to /etc/X11/XF86Config.nVidia 4) Shut down the machine, yank the GeForce card out of the system and toss it aside while looking disgusted. 4) Put in the Matrox card and boot up the machine. 5) Run /usr/X11R6/bin/SaX2 and follow the prompts. Configure your card (be careful here ;-)) and bring up X to ensure that all is well at this point. Gawk at how far off to one side the image is *LOL*. SaX2 will want to install the xf86_glx rpm, so make sure to have your SuSE disc available. 6) Exit out of X, and install the mga driver and powerdesk software. This is very painless, as the README files are very helpful, and Matrox has included an install script with the driver. 7) Bring up X (startx from the shell prompt, for those that haven't run X from the prompt before), and run mgapdesk as root. Configure your X server so that the image displays properly. 8) Suddenly realize that Linux CAN be easy! NOTE: For some unknown reason, the Matrox G550 32MB DDR equipped dual head video card is found to be less expensive by pricewatch than the older G400 card. It's a whopping $91. If you have any questions, just let me know. Have a great day, Steven