I've got a dual CPU (PIII/1Ghz) machien w/ nvidia geforce2MX card (the dual head one) / serverwroks chipset, IDE disk And it's unstable as hell. I cannot do much on it or the machine crashes. I've tried the defaults suse 7.2 kernel, as well as a whole bunch of homegrown ones (2.4.4, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, ) I've tried reiserfs , i've tried ext3 Im back to ext2 Nothing works, When Im in X and start doing some serious X work it crashes when I don;t run X on the machine it's rocksolid. I've run memtest 2.7 -> no errors I've swapped videocards with known good ones I've tried pretty much every flavour of the Nvidia drivers and still no go. Any suggestions ? Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 9:34 am, you wrote:
I've got a dual CPU (PIII/1Ghz) machien w/ nvidia geforce2MX card (the dual head one) / serverwroks chipset, IDE disk
And it's unstable as hell.
I've got a dual PIII/500mhz with a TNT2Ultra video card. Works perfectly. I use the nVidia AGP module with my home grown 2.4.9. There might be something wrong with the drivers for the graphics card for your setup, but I'd be a little suprised. nVidia have clearly put a lot of effort into making those drivers stable and by all accounts they appear to have finally got there. Acid question: if you don't run X and you stress the machine, does it behave badly?
* Derek Fountain
I use the nVidia AGP module with my home grown 2.4.9. There might be something wrong with the drivers for the graphics card for your setup, but I'd be a little suprised. nVidia have clearly put a lot of effort into making those drivers stable and by all accounts they appear to have finally got there.
Im using the 1.541 (19sep2001) drivers .
Acid question: if you don't run X and you stress the machine, does it behave badly?
No. as I said, if i don;t run X it's rocksolid. Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.
Im using the 1.541 (19sep2001) drivers .
Acid question: if you don't run X and you stress the machine, does it behave badly?
No. as I said, if i don;t run X it's rocksolid.
Which AGP module do you use? If it's the nVidia one (which it probably should be) I'd advise asking their support guys if there's any known problems with your sort of spec machine. If there's not you might have to blame your motherboard.
This could be a combination fo things. VM hell could be one of them, so I recommend upgrading to 2.4.14. More importantly, upgrade your Nvidia card drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux . Reading the release notes, i noticed that SMP fixes are included in that release. I remember reading somewhere that the next drivers will have improved SMP support, meaning that the current ones have shitty support. On 7 Nov 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
I've got a dual CPU (PIII/1Ghz) machien w/ nvidia geforce2MX card (the dual head one) / serverwroks chipset, IDE disk
And it's unstable as hell.
I cannot do much on it or the machine crashes. I've tried the defaults suse 7.2 kernel, as well as a whole bunch of homegrown ones (2.4.4, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, ) I've tried reiserfs , i've tried ext3 Im back to ext2
Nothing works, When Im in X and start doing some serious X work it crashes when I don;t run X on the machine it's rocksolid.
I've run memtest 2.7 -> no errors I've swapped videocards with known good ones
I've tried pretty much every flavour of the Nvidia drivers and still no go.
-- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 01:34 am, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
I've got a dual CPU (PIII/1Ghz) machien w/ nvidia geforce2MX card (the dual head one) / serverwroks chipset, IDE disk
And it's unstable as hell.
I cannot do much on it or the machine crashes. I've tried the defaults suse 7.2 kernel, as well as a whole bunch of homegrown ones (2.4.4, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, ) I've tried reiserfs , i've tried ext3 Im back to ext2
Nothing works, When Im in X and start doing some serious X work it crashes when I don;t run X on the machine it's rocksolid.
I've run memtest 2.7 -> no errors I've swapped videocards with known good ones
I've tried pretty much every flavour of the Nvidia drivers and still no go.
Any suggestions ?
Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1)
One suggestion: Try memtest; Any strange crashes and behaviour can be due to a faulty chip, and with the sizes of chips nowadays a faulty bit or byte can have nasty consequences on software as well as to your self esteem and hairline. Matt
* StarTux
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 01:34 am, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
I've got a dual CPU (PIII/1Ghz) machien w/ nvidia geforce2MX card (the dual head one) / serverwroks chipset, IDE disk
And it's unstable as hell.
I cannot do much on it or the machine crashes. I've tried the defaults suse 7.2 kernel, as well as a whole bunch of homegrown ones (2.4.4, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, ) I've tried reiserfs , i've tried ext3 Im back to ext2
Nothing works, When Im in X and start doing some serious X work it crashes when I don;t run X on the machine it's rocksolid.
=====>> I've run memtest 2.7 -> no errors
I've swapped videocards with known good ones
I've tried pretty much every flavour of the Nvidia drivers and still no go.
Any suggestions ?
Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1)
One suggestion:
Try memtest;
Thanks, please read the above again, and pay special notice to the line marked with =====>> ;) Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.
I've got a dual CPU (PIII/1Ghz) machien w/ nvidia geforce2MX card (the dual head one) / serverwroks chipset, IDE disk
And it's unstable as hell.
I cannot do much on it or the machine crashes. I've tried the defaults suse 7.2 kernel, as well as a whole bunch of homegrown ones (2.4.4, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, ) I've tried reiserfs , i've tried ext3 Im back to ext2
Nothing works, When Im in X and start doing some serious X work it crashes when I don;t run X on the machine it's rocksolid.
I've run memtest 2.7 -> no errors I've swapped videocards with known good ones
I've tried pretty much every flavour of the Nvidia drivers and still no go.
Any suggestions ?
Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1)
gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands
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Oddly enough, those same problems are exactly why I switched to an nVidia
card!
I was running a VooDoo 3000 AGP and had those exact same problems. I
always suspected that it had to do with heat buildup in the machine. I
now use an nVidia GeForce2 GTS DDR 64 meg card, and I love it! The
problems litterally went away the moment I installed it.
I assume that this is because the graphics chip has a fan, and on the
VooDoo, it did not. X pushes the chip more than non-X, so when running X,
much more heat will be generated.
Does your card have a fan?
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:34:57 +0100
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I have an nvidia gforce2 mx and dual PIII 700 ( abit vp6 ) I had similar problems to you a while back. Have you tried checking that the correct agpgart is being loaded diddy@pooter:~> cat /proc/nv/card0 ----- Driver Info ----- NVRM Version: 1.0-1541 ------ Card Info ------ Model: GeForce2 MX IRQ: 10 Video BIOS: 03.11.00.04 ------ AGP Info ------- AGP status: Enabled AGP Driver: AGPGART Bridge: Via Apollo Pro SBA: Supported [disabled] FW: Unsupported [disabled] Rates: 2x 1x [2x] Registers: 0x1f000203:0x00000102 I must say that I did fiddle with my ram chips and reseated them amongst a load of stuff when testing. This may have helped. There is some info in the nvidia readme about agpgart. I'm not sure what I did but it solved the problem. I guess what Im trying to say is, keep at it because you will sort it out. dids
I've got a dual CPU (PIII/1Ghz) machien w/ nvidia geforce2MX card (the dual head one) / serverwroks chipset, IDE disk
And it's unstable as hell.
I cannot do much on it or the machine crashes. I've tried the defaults suse 7.2 kernel, as well as a whole bunch of homegrown ones (2.4.4, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, ) I've tried reiserfs , i've tried ext3 Im back to ext2
Nothing works, When Im in X and start doing some serious X work it crashes when I don;t run X on the machine it's rocksolid.
I've run memtest 2.7 -> no errors I've swapped videocards with known good ones
I've tried pretty much every flavour of the Nvidia drivers and still no go.
Any suggestions ?
Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1)
gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands
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Forgot to say, the best place for advice on this is in irc irc.openprojects.net #nvidia
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