Problems with GeForce2 and nvidia drivers
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Hi there! I've been trying for three days to get my GeForce2 MX/MX 400 to work with 3 releases of nvidia drivers (3123, 4191 and 4349) I've used both tarball and rpm's versions, but always is the same result: A blank screen with 2 or three blue lines at the bottom and a white pixel at the top-right corner. Got rid of the lines by using Option "NoLogo" "true", but anyway, I have a pretty nice black screen :-p I've waited for 5 minutes and nothing came up. Can't switch vt [Alt+F1...F6] and the only thing working is M$'s standard control tool [Ctrl+Alt+Del]. I've edited the XConfig86 file, used SaX2, loaded the module with insmod, used startx -- -logverbose 5 -verbose 5 and nothing looks wrong on XFree86.0.log. It even says it's switching to 1152x864, initializing AGP 4x, etc and nothing at all after that (both files attached). Works cool with nv driver, but by any means it's working with nvidia driver. System: AMD Athlon 1800+ XP MB GigaByte GA-7DXE Chipset: AMD761+686B AGPset RAM: 256MB DDR Video: GeForce2 MX/MX 400 BIOS Rev. 3.11.01.48.00 SuSE Professional 8.1 fully patched (according to YOU) Kernel: SuSE default (uname -a = Linux kristo 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:19:15 UTC 2002 i686 unknown) lspci output:00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 14) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX] (rev b2) Can use agpgart, dunno what else might be needed. Any other info needed please ask. Thanks in advance :-) Benjamín -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Reality is acceptable... if practiced with moderation...
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, give us a print out of xsession errors, glxinfo, and 3Ddiag. and that might help as well. Also, make sure the nvida (or NVdriver) is loaded (lsmod). It should show that nvidia (or NVdriver, depending on the version) and agpgart modules are loaded. Cheers, Curtis. On Friday 04 April 2003 23:33 pm, Benjamín Ubach wrote:
Hi there!
I've been trying for three days to get my GeForce2 MX/MX 400 to work with 3 releases of nvidia drivers (3123, 4191 and 4349) I've used both tarball and rpm's versions, but always is the same result: A blank screen with 2 or three blue lines at the bottom and a white pixel at the top-right corner. Got rid of the lines by using Option "NoLogo" "true", but anyway, I have a pretty nice black screen :-p I've waited for 5 minutes and nothing came up. Can't switch vt [Alt+F1...F6] and the only thing working is M$'s standard control tool [Ctrl+Alt+Del]. I've edited the XConfig86 file, used SaX2, loaded the module with insmod, used startx -- -logverbose 5 -verbose 5 and nothing looks wrong on XFree86.0.log. It even says it's switching to 1152x864, initializing AGP 4x, etc and nothing at all after that (both files attached).
Works cool with nv driver, but by any means it's working with nvidia driver.
System:
AMD Athlon 1800+ XP MB GigaByte GA-7DXE Chipset: AMD761+686B AGPset RAM: 256MB DDR Video: GeForce2 MX/MX 400 BIOS Rev. 3.11.01.48.00 SuSE Professional 8.1 fully patched (according to YOU) Kernel: SuSE default (uname -a = Linux kristo 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:19:15 UTC 2002 i686 unknown)
lspci output:00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 14) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX] (rev b2)
Can use agpgart, dunno what else might be needed.
Any other info needed please ask.
Thanks in advance :-)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I would love to, but as I said, after X tries to start, I can't do anything but reboot. The info I'm posting now is with nv driver, not nvidia. what xsession errors r u talking about?. 3Ddiag says everything's ok: ++++++++++++++++++++++ kristo:/home/lestat # switch2nvidia - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Switching the use of "nv" driver of XFree86 to "nvidia" driver of nVidia - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Creating symbolic links to the correct OpenGL library ... done Patching /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done kristo:/home/lestat # 3Ddiag 3Ddiag version 0.496 Verifying 3D configuration: Using 3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board "nVidia Corporation GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (10de@0110)": Tests for package "NVIDIA_GLX": package ... done. package files ... done. Tests for package "NVIDIA_kernel": package ... done. package files ... done. Tests for correct OpenGL libraries/GLX extensions: Symbolic Links ... done. /etc/sysconfig/3ddiag (SCRIPT_3D=switch2nvidia_glx) ... done. Test for correct XFree86 version ... done. Tests for XFree86 configuration: Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done. Driver ... done. Color Depth ... done. Extensions ... done. Options ... done. - ----------------------- NOTE ----------------------------------- If 3D hardware OpenGL configuration is not stable enough, you should switch back to 'Mesa Software Rendering'. You can verify this configuration with the command "3Ddiag --mesasoft". - ----------------------- NOTE ----------------------------------- Checking GLU/glut runtime configuration: GLU ... done (package mesaglu) glut ... done (package mesaglut) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ glxinfo goes next: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lestat@kristo:~> glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation client glx version string: 1.3 client glx extensions: GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIX_swap_group, GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_NV_float_buffer GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2 OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract glu version: 1.3 glu extensions: GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x23 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x24 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None 0x25 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x26 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Checking if nvidia loads, will check tomorro, i'm tired now and downloading kde updates (don't wanto to go back all the way now). Tomorrow we'll check what's going on... Thnx! :-D On Saturday 05 April 2003 00:27, Curtis Rey wrote:
Hi, give us a print out of xsession errors, glxinfo, and 3Ddiag. and that might help as well. Also, make sure the nvida (or NVdriver) is loaded (lsmod). It should show that nvidia (or NVdriver, depending on the version) and agpgart modules are loaded.
Cheers, Curtis.
On Friday 04 April 2003 23:33 pm, Benjamín Ubach wrote:
Hi there!
I've been trying for three days to get my GeForce2 MX/MX 400 to work with 3 releases of nvidia drivers (3123, 4191 and 4349) I've used both tarball and rpm's versions, but always is the same result: A blank screen with 2 or three blue lines at the bottom and a white pixel at the top-right corner. Got rid of the lines by using Option "NoLogo" "true", but anyway, I have a pretty nice black screen :-p I've waited for 5 minutes and nothing came up. Can't switch vt [Alt+F1...F6] and the only thing working is M$'s standard control tool [Ctrl+Alt+Del]. I've edited the XConfig86 file, used SaX2, loaded the module with insmod, used startx -- -logverbose 5 -verbose 5 and nothing looks wrong on XFree86.0.log. It even says it's switching to 1152x864, initializing AGP 4x, etc and nothing at all after that (both files attached).
Works cool with nv driver, but by any means it's working with nvidia driver.
System:
AMD Athlon 1800+ XP MB GigaByte GA-7DXE Chipset: AMD761+686B AGPset RAM: 256MB DDR Video: GeForce2 MX/MX 400 BIOS Rev. 3.11.01.48.00 SuSE Professional 8.1 fully patched (according to YOU) Kernel: SuSE default (uname -a = Linux kristo 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:19:15 UTC 2002 i686 unknown)
lspci output:00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 14) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX] (rev b2)
Can use agpgart, dunno what else might be needed.
Any other info needed please ask.
Thanks in advance :-)
Benjamín
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On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:33, Benjamín Ubach wrote:
Hi there!
I've been trying for three days to get my GeForce2 MX/MX 400 to work with 3 releases of nvidia drivers (3123, 4191 and 4349) I've used both tarball and rpm's versions, but always is the same result: A blank screen with 2 or three blue lines at the bottom and a white pixel at the top-right corner. Got rid of the lines by using Option "NoLogo" "true", but anyway, I have a pretty nice black screen :-p I've waited for 5 minutes and nothing came up. Can't switch vt [Alt+F1...F6] and the only thing working is M$'s standard control tool [Ctrl+Alt+Del]. I've edited the XConfig86 file, used SaX2, loaded the module with insmod, used startx -- -logverbose 5 -verbose 5 and nothing looks wrong on XFree86.0.log. It even says it's switching to 1152x864, initializing AGP 4x, etc and nothing at all after that (both files attached).
Works cool with nv driver, but by any means it's working with nvidia driver.
I had a similar issue with my wife's machine. I was able to solve it with the NvAgp option in the XF86Config file. I told my wife's machine to use the built in Agp support and things worked OK. Look at the README file that comes with the drivers. Hope that this helps. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."
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Benjamín Ubach
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Curtis Rey
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Marshall Heartley