Hi, I downloaded the unified installer. As some of you know that the fan had blown, so I suspected the card was gone - as the sax2 puked after enabling 3D. Now with a new card, sax2 gives a white screen and hangs. What to do? SL 8.2 with NVIDIA installers as available last week. -- Rohit +9122 5692 2101 G9,Floor-1,Chandivali : SDE : TLSI : 9821394599@bplmobile.com The information below is compulsorily added for non-mahindrabt recepients. ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 May 2003 06:18, Rohit wrote:
Hi,
I downloaded the unified installer. As some of you know that the fan had blown, so I suspected the card was gone - as the sax2 puked after enabling 3D.
Now with a new card, sax2 gives a white screen and hangs. What to do? SL 8.2 with NVIDIA installers as available last week.
-- Rohit
Heya Rohit, Try using YaST2 to enable the 3D, instead of just firing up SaX2. I tried yesterday to use sax2 to enable the 3D and it hung at a black screen and I had to do a hard reboot. When I went through YaST2, it got to the black screen, but didn't hang. Not sure if that was coincidence or what, but it's worth a try I guess. John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+wjb1H5oDXyLKXKQRAkSYAJ47Dhn/lpy4jRJvWxgANN/SRk8EEwCfVrUN MxXufi3b2X+BrfqcaYY8d6E= =5sTJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
The 03.05.14 at 16:48, Rohit wrote:
Now with a new card, sax2 gives a white screen and hangs. What to do? SL 8.2 with NVIDIA installers as available last week.
General procedure (not only 8.2). On a console do: init 3 sax2 --reinit ... configure init 5 Maybe, even ldconfig and depmod before sax. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Now with a new card, sax2 gives a white screen and hangs. What to do? SL 8.2 with NVIDIA installers as available last week.
General procedure (not only 8.2). On a console do: init 3 sax2 --reinit ... configure init 5 Maybe, even ldconfig and depmod before sax.
Hi, This may be old - but I was not accessing the list at home, so pardon the delay. 1. NVIDIA-installer followed by yast2. Did that twice. First time, got a very white screen, where the test-X screen should have been there. And had to hard reboot. 2. Second time, as another gentleman said, tried sax2 and got the same screen, but this time I did get a white screen, but machine did not have to be hard booted. Although I had to soft-reboot it. Config was saved [automatically] and X was screwed. sax2 did not let me "unconfigure" the 3D support, so manually changed XF86Config to use nv driver, instead of NVIDIA. Stuck at this. New NVIDIA Riva TNT2 card [new because it is still new in India], latest installer, latest SuSE Linux. And a white X screen if I try to use 3D :-((((((((((((( Moaning.. Rohit ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com
Rohit wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Stuck at this. New NVIDIA Riva TNT2 card [new because it is still new in India], latest installer, latest SuSE Linux. And a white X screen if I try to use 3D :-(((((((((((((
I had a nVIDIA Riva Vanta 3D (32Mb), or something like that, in my DELL machine at work, and I got the nVIDIA drivers to work fine -- the white screen "nVIDIA" everytime I started X and everything else -- but the 3D-functions would never work. I got the impression they were simply turned off for some reason (otherwise you usually get 3D automatically when you choose to use the nvidia driver (?)). /Lars
This is from the nvidia readme related to tnt cards. (app-h) APPENDIX H: TNT SPECIFIC ISSUES __________________________________________________________________________ Most issues pertaining to SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards should be resolved. There is the rare chance, however, that your video card has the wrong BIOS installed, and that this driver will continue to fail for you. If this driver fails for you, do the following: o watch your monitor as the system boots. The very first, brief screen will identify the type of video memory your card has. This will be either SGRAM or SDRAM. o edit the file "os-registry.c" from the kernel module sources. Look for the variable "NVreg_VideoMemoryTypeOverride". Set the value of the variable to the type of memory you have (numerically, see the line just above it). o since we don't normally use this variable, change the "#if 0" that is about 10 lines above the variable to "#if 1". o rebuild and reinstall the new driver ("make") it also mentions that the horizontal resol has constraints. So this would be pertinent to the interactions between the monitor and the card. Since Sax2 and XF86 both attempt to config the system based on this info, especially SaX2, the the settings for you monitor may be the real culprit in this situation. What I have found to be helpful at times is to make sure the symlinks for the drivers are correct. And if not make them right (check the readme for further help). Then if the symlinks for the drivers are correct. Then make sure the video timings are right, i.e. the hsync and vsync range. Often I choose a VESA device to get it up and running with 3d and then save that as a backup (XF86Config.bkup), The I change the monitor type, or timings, or res settings one at a time. If it fails and become unusable, then I just cp /etc/X11/XF86Config.bkup /etc/X11/XF86Config and it runs again. The main thing I've found is it may not always be just about the video drivers by themselves. Like I said, if you run 3Ddiag, made sure the symlinks are set correctly, and nothing obvious seems to be causing this then look at other aspect the XF86 configuration. HTH, Curtis.
Stuck at this. New NVIDIA Riva TNT2 card [new because it is still new in India], latest installer, latest SuSE Linux. And a white X screen if I try to use 3D :-(((((((((((((
Moaning.. Rohit
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Lars Norén
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