I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 18:38, Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid.
My card is an FX5200 and it works fine with the 7167 in 9.3, with no problems whatsoever installing it, by installing it the regular way (boot to console, init 3, MC, etc...). Didn't know there was a newer one, but since mine's working fine, I don't think I need it. John
JB wrote:
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 18:38, Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid.
My card is an FX5200 and it works fine with the 7167 in 9.3, with no problems whatsoever installing it, by installing it the regular way (boot to console, init 3, MC, etc...). Didn't know there was a newer one, but since mine's working fine, I don't think I need it.
John
I hit a funny, I think I shall go back to 7167. Firefox crashed, after that df and other commands didn't work - it kept saying READ ONLY filesystem, CTRL-ALT-F1 worked, but with a screen of coloured blotches, and I needed a hard reset to reboot. The later postings held out more hope, I guess I am one of the ones with the problems reported earlier, half an hour looking good, then bump. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
On Tue, 3 May 2005, JB wrote:
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 18:38, Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid.
My card is an FX5200 and it works fine with the 7167 in 9.3, with no problems whatsoever installing it, by installing it the regular way (boot to console, init 3, MC, etc...). Didn't know there was a newer one, but since mine's working fine, I don't think I need it.
The only "funny" with my FX5200 is a stange interaction between the nVidia driver, X server, and the KDE window manager when my ViewSonic VP201m is in 1600x1200 mode. Given a window frame touches the top edge of the screen and the top edge of the kicker bar. If you click maximze widget and then the restore widget the window will not be restored to its original size. The vertical height of the window frame will be reduced so that the bottom of the frame is within 768 pixels less the height of the kicker bar from the top edge of the display. If the bottom edge of the frame doesn't touch the top of the kicker bar, it behaves as expected. If the top edge of the frame doesn't touch the top edge of the display while the bottom edge of the frame touches the kicker bar, it will also work as expected. This behviour doesn't occur on a similar system where a Matrox graphics adapter is used. The problem first appeared in SuSE 9.2 with the X11 server update that was distributed at the end of February. Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard
Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
On Tue, 3 May 2005, JB wrote:
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 18:38, Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid.
My card is an FX5200 and it works fine with the 7167 in 9.3, with no problems whatsoever installing it, by installing it the regular way (boot to console, init 3, MC, etc...). Didn't know there was a newer one, but since mine's working fine, I don't think I need it.
The only "funny" with my FX5200 is a stange interaction between the nVidia driver, X server, and the KDE window manager when my ViewSonic VP201m is in 1600x1200 mode.
Given a window frame touches the top edge of the screen and the top edge of the kicker bar. If you click maximze widget and then the restore widget the window will not be restored to its original size. The vertical height of the window frame will be reduced so that the bottom of the frame is within 768 pixels less the height of the kicker bar from the top edge of the display.
If the bottom edge of the frame doesn't touch the top of the kicker bar, it behaves as expected.
If the top edge of the frame doesn't touch the top edge of the display while the bottom edge of the frame touches the kicker bar, it will also work as expected.
This behviour doesn't occur on a similar system where a Matrox graphics adapter is used.
The problem first appeared in SuSE 9.2 with the X11 server update that was distributed at the end of February.
Merton Campbell Crockett
I spoke a bit too soon, see my later post. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid.
Well, I wuz brave, no problems so far with this FX5500 128M card. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:38 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3.
I've got a FX5200 and the driver that gets downloaded with the YOU update during (toward the end of) the installation seems to work just fine. The only problem I have is when I've got beagled running. For some reason, it causes graphics in bzflag and neverball to get really choppy. When beagled is not running, I've got no problems whatsoever. Jack
On May Tuesday 2005 8:34 pm, Jack Brooks wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:38 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3.
I've got a FX5200 and the driver that gets downloaded with the YOU update during (toward the end of) the installation seems to work just fine. The only problem I have is when I've got beagled running. For some reason, it causes graphics in bzflag and neverball to get really choppy. When beagled is not running, I've got no problems whatsoever.
Jack yuppers, using Yast2 and the Utah mirror in the states, it *finally* got everything together and installed correctly.. only problem I´ve run into is the mysterious loss of the mouse wheel that has been working til a bit ago.
I even get the screen flash that says NVidia when log out or in... it seemed always to get stuck w/ the download showing it was 99% done but the patch update line was at only 50%.. this time I wandered out for feed and drink.. came back to the message all had finished correctly.. and so it had. Did the usual Sax2 routine and can get a resolution on this 20inch screen that makes it impossible to see what I am clicking on or near... And I have a really really ooooold video card w/ not nearly enough ram on it. But a fix for that is in the works ;-)
Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid. I have installed 7174 Nvidia drivers on an AMD64 PC with nVidia 5700LE card.
Sudhir
Sudhir Anand wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid.
I have installed 7174 Nvidia drivers on an AMD64 PC with nVidia 5700LE card.
Sudhir
I've built a new kernel without agpgart and set xorg.conf to use NVidia's agpgart instead. I've been playing with motherboard clocks, voltages, CPU speeds, a new BIOS and some new memory ( 2x 512M Kingston) that was causing problems just on this Asus A7N8X-E motherboard, but was OK on an ASROCK board, this box never fully booted with that memory, something would segfault. It's been stable for just over 8 hours now, may be tomorrow I shall have another try of 7174. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 01:11 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
I've built a new kernel without agpgart and set xorg.conf to use NVidia's agpgart instead. I've been playing with motherboard clocks, voltages, CPU speeds, a new BIOS and some new memory ( 2x 512M Kingston) that was causing problems just on this Asus A7N8X-E motherboard, but was OK on an ASROCK board, this box never fully booted with that memory, Sid, I'm beginning to regret buying ASUS. I couldn't find the features I was looking for in anything else, and I thought ASUS might have improved since the last time I dealt with one (P-II based celerons). It's a A7V880, the only KT880 board I could get stock of.
- Even with the latest beta BIOS, it still doesn't detect my year-and-a-half old Athlon's FSB correctly. It's a 2400+ 2Ghz which came ONLY with 266mhz FSB. Now I'm stuck running at 1.5ghz with 200mhz FSB, unless I "overclock" it. - Every couple of boots I get the type of screen you get when you're BIOS is busted - asking for a floppy to boot from. Then I reset it and all's fine, except for losing all the BIOS settings. If I remove my Radeon 7500 this problem goes away. (????) - Replacing the Radeon with my old GeForce MX4000 sorts out the boot problem, but it's an inferior card in every respect (performance, image quality). With the nv driver, mplayer and xine doesn't work - image doesn't update and X pretty much grinds to a halt untill I can kill the player. With the nvidia driver, X doesn't even come up. My screen just goes into DPMS mode, like when I power down. Locks the keyboard too, so I can't kill it. And by the way, all this worked peachy for two years on a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE board. All in all, I'll never buy ASUS again. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com
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