Hey all, HELP!! I am almost at the end of my rope people, can anyone offer any insight to this problem? I have a Nvidia TNT2 Vanta 16mb agp video card installed in my system. The last two driver upgrades that have been available for the Nvidia cards have not worked for me. I get complete lockup when the kernel and/or X or XFree86 is loaded at the login screen! Everything quits except for the mouse movement, can't get to a console window or anything, a reset is all that will suffice. Cannot start up in runlevel 3 console mode and run any graphics stuff, Xwindows, Sax2, nothing! I end up having to reinstall v1.0-1251 to get things fixed again. I have tried several suggestions presented here by other users and from SuSE support as well with no success. I am at this point thinking it may be the video card that is the problem for others here with the GeForce boards do not seem to have this problem. Can anyone help figure this out? Thanks end of line Tracer -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
On Friday 21 September 2001 7:13 pm, Tracer Bullet wrote:
Hey all, HELP!! I am almost at the end of my rope people, can anyone offer any insight to this problem? I have a Nvidia TNT2 Vanta 16mb agp video card installed in my system. The last two driver upgrades that have been available for the Nvidia cards have not worked for me. I get complete lockup when the kernel and/or X or XFree86 is loaded at the login screen! Everything quits except for the mouse movement, can't get to a console window or anything, a reset is all that will suffice. Cannot start up in runlevel 3 console mode and run any graphics stuff, Xwindows, Sax2, nothing! I end up having to reinstall v1.0-1251 to get things fixed again. I have tried several suggestions presented here by other users and from SuSE support as well with no success. I am at this point thinking it may be the video card that is the problem for others here with the GeForce boards do not seem to have this problem.
Can anyone help figure this out? Thanks
I just checked out the readme file at ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/README. It mentions that the RIVA 128/128ZX chips are supported by the open source 'nv' driver for XFree86, but not by the NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set. Are you certain that you have a Vanta? If you want to check your Device PCI IDs, you can use `lspci -n` (su root) and look for the devide with vendor id "10de". You should see: 02:00.0 Class 0300:10de:002C (rev ??) for your card if it's a Vanta. I wonder if this is where your problem lies? Otherwise, there is a pretty good troubleshhoting section in the same file. Appendix C also provides some useful information re. symlinks and shared libraries. BTW, I use an ELSA TNT2 and have had no problems with the drivers from NVidia (yet to try latest release) when updating XFree86-4.0 using YOU. I assume your XF86Config file does use the 'nvidia' (not 'nv') driver and loads the 'glx' module? M
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Hey all, HELP!! I am almost at the end of my rope people, can anyone offer any insight to this problem? I have a Nvidia TNT2 Vanta 16mb agp video card installed in my system. The last two driver upgrades that have been available for the Nvidia cards have not worked for me. I get complete lockup when the kernel and/or X or XFree86 is loaded at the
Apart from the other suggestions given, have you double checked that you use the glx modules and the libGL.so from the same series (1521) as your kernel patch ? Also I found that the precompiled kernel module didn't always work for me .. Building the kernel driver from source worked a lot better. Currently listening to: CD Audio Track 08 Gerhard, <@jasongeo.com> == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O Standing above the crowd, he had a voice so strong and loud =`\<, we'll miss him (=)/(=) Ranting and pointing his finger, At everything but his heart we'll miss him
I don't want to hijack this thread but I am also having an NVIDIA/game issue. Although I am not really a gamer, I bought a copy of Descent3 for Linux to help support Loki. I have it working, but the frame rate and control responses are so sluggish that it is completely un-playable. I am running a Creative TNT2 Ultra 32Mb 32bit AGP card on an AMD Athalon Thunderbird 1400MHz processor, with 512Mb of DDRAM, through SuSE 7.2 Pro. I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers. NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541.suse72.i386.rpm and NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541.suse72.i386.rpm (just released last week). I have also run SaX2 and confirmed the card's configuration and selected the GLX driver. However the problem still persists. I suspect the problem may be that software acceleration (vice hardware) is enabled. Does anyone know: 1) If this is likely the problem and, if not, what is? 2) If it is, how do you switch off software acceleration? 3) When you use SaX2, the first thing it asks you is do you want 3D enabled. Does this refer to software or hardware acceleration/rendering? None of the SuSE or Nvidia reference material has been of much help. -- burns
Burns, With that system Descent 3 should fly. I believe you may be right about the sofware rendering turned on. The first thing I would do is run the program "gears" this will bring up a cute little window with some gears spinning in it. In the console it will tell you what kind of frame rates you are recieving. If these frame rates are less than 1250 the odds are you have software rendering enabled. To change this you need to execute as root the switch2nvidia_glx command. This will change your rendering to hardware. Also double check your Descent settings as I believe that there is a place for software rendering there also. Austing Morgan On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:57:43AM -0400, burns wrote:
I don't want to hijack this thread but I am also having an NVIDIA/game issue.
Although I am not really a gamer, I bought a copy of Descent3 for Linux to help support Loki. I have it working, but the frame rate and control responses are so sluggish that it is completely un-playable.
I am running a Creative TNT2 Ultra 32Mb 32bit AGP card on an AMD Athalon Thunderbird 1400MHz processor, with 512Mb of DDRAM, through SuSE 7.2 Pro. I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers. NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541.suse72.i386.rpm and NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541.suse72.i386.rpm (just released last week). I have also run SaX2 and confirmed the card's configuration and selected the GLX driver. However the problem still persists.
I suspect the problem may be that software acceleration (vice hardware) is enabled. Does anyone know:
1) If this is likely the problem and, if not, what is?
2) If it is, how do you switch off software acceleration?
3) When you use SaX2, the first thing it asks you is do you want 3D enabled. Does this refer to software or hardware acceleration/rendering?
None of the SuSE or Nvidia reference material has been of much help. -- burns
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On September 23, 2001 11:22 am, Austin Morgan wrote: <snip> Thanks Austin. The news isn't good, except that my diagnosis appears accurate: burns@CR792449-A:~ > /usr/bin/gears 3673 frames in 5.000 seconds = 734.600 FPS 3707 frames in 5.000 seconds = 741.400 FPS 3705 frames in 5.000 seconds = 741.000 FPS 3688 frames in 5.000 seconds = 737.600 FPS 3678 frames in 5.000 seconds = 735.600 FPS 3706 frames in 5.000 seconds = 741.200 FPS switch2nvidia_glx doesn't appear to change anything. Same results before and after. Rats. -- burns
On Sunday 23 September 2001 4:29 pm, burns wrote:
On September 23, 2001 11:22 am, Austin Morgan wrote: <snip>
Thanks Austin.
The news isn't good, except that my diagnosis appears accurate:
burns@CR792449-A:~ > /usr/bin/gears 3673 frames in 5.000 seconds = 734.600 FPS 3707 frames in 5.000 seconds = 741.400 FPS 3705 frames in 5.000 seconds = 741.000 FPS 3688 frames in 5.000 seconds = 737.600 FPS 3678 frames in 5.000 seconds = 735.600 FPS 3706 frames in 5.000 seconds = 741.200 FPS
switch2nvidia_glx doesn't appear to change anything. Same results before and after. Rats.
Anders once said "If it still doesn't work (refering to my TNT2), try running 3Ddiag. It should tell you what you've missed in your installation". M
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