Recommended Steps to swap out video cards
I want to get rid of this ATI card and go to Geforce 6600. Is there anything that I need to know or should do before venturing down this road. I did not get much info from sir google :). Thank you
On Monday 10 April 2006 15:53, Elijah Savage wrote:
I want to get rid of this ATI card and go to Geforce 6600. Is there anything that I need to know or should do before venturing down this road. I did not get much info from sir google :).
Thank you
Should be pretty simple if you: 1) Boot into runlevel 3 (put a 3 on the boot parm line) 2) Run sax2 -l (small l) once you get to command level 3) Configure the new card with Sax2 and let'r rip. Another possibility that might be better is to boot into level 3 and run Yast from the command line and do the whole thing from there.... Would be better I think. Others may have better ideas.
On 4/10/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
I want to get rid of this ATI card and go to Geforce 6600. Is there anything that I need to know or should do before venturing down this road. I did not get much info from sir google :).
Thank you
1. Swap the card. 2. On the boot screen, press F3 (Options) and type "3" for boot parameters. This is going to boot you in runlevel 3 3. login as root 4. uninstall the ati driver, if you had installed any 5. follow the instructions here to install the nvidia driver: <http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html> Cheers -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:25 -0500, Sunny wrote:
On 4/10/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
I want to get rid of this ATI card and go to Geforce 6600. Is there anything that I need to know or should do before venturing down this road. I did not get much info from sir google :).
Thank you
1. Swap the card. 2. On the boot screen, press F3 (Options) and type "3" for boot parameters. This is going to boot you in runlevel 3 3. login as root 4. uninstall the ati driver, if you had installed any 5. follow the instructions here to install the nvidia driver: <http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html>
Why not go to the trouble of backing up a copy of the xorg config file first? It could make life easier in case one needs to swap the old card back in.
On 4/10/06, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@mnsi.net> wrote:
Why not go to the trouble of backing up a copy of the xorg config file first? It could make life easier in case one needs to swap the old card back in.
umhhh, forgot to mention it :), its like a macros for my fingers when I touch any config file :) -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Mike McMullin wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:25 -0500, Sunny wrote:
On 4/10/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
I want to get rid of this ATI card and go to Geforce 6600. Is there anything that I need to know or should do before venturing down this road. I did not get much info from sir google :).
Thank you
1. Swap the card. 2. On the boot screen, press F3 (Options) and type "3" for boot parameters. This is going to boot you in runlevel 3 3. login as root 4. uninstall the ati driver, if you had installed any 5. follow the instructions here to install the nvidia driver: <http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html>
Why not go to the trouble of backing up a copy of the xorg config file first? It could make life easier in case one needs to swap the old card back in.
Followed these instructions and everything came up fine, but in YAST under hardware should the video card say VESA Framebuffer? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
Followed these instructions and everything came up fine, but in YAST under hardware should the video card say VESA Framebuffer?
Sorry for the private mail. It should be nvidia. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
Followed these instructions and everything came up fine, but in YAST under hardware should the video card say VESA Framebuffer?
Sorry for the private mail.
It should be nvidia.
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
No big deal on the private mail. Well I installed it just as the email and web site say not sure why it comes up like this. After install from init 3 though it would not go into runlevel 5 and I had to run sax2 and that is what was chosen. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
Followed these instructions and everything came up fine, but in YAST under hardware should the video card say VESA Framebuffer?
Sorry for the private mail.
It should be nvidia.
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
No big deal on the private mail. Well I installed it just as the email and web site say not sure why it comes up like this. After install from init 3 though it would not go into runlevel 5 and I had to run sax2 and that is what was chosen.
something was not OK with the install, and X did not start. Running again sax2 without the parameters specified in the instructions forces it to try to redetect the card. Because it fails to recognize it, it puts the best match - vesa fb. So, try again in init 3 to start sax2 -m 0=nvidia. After that, try startx. If it fails, you can look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log what is going wrong. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
Followed these instructions and everything came up fine, but in YAST under hardware should the video card say VESA Framebuffer?
Sorry for the private mail.
It should be nvidia.
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
I just noticed when I go to YOU and click on installable patches it shows the nvidia driver but it shows as 0B as in zero bytes like there is nothing there to download. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
I just noticed when I go to YOU and click on installable patches it shows the nvidia driver but it shows as 0B as in zero bytes like there is nothing there to download.
Because it is just a script, which in turn downloads the nvidia driver. For a legal reasons Novel is not allowed to distribute the driver by themselves. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
I just noticed when I go to YOU and click on installable patches it shows the nvidia driver but it shows as 0B as in zero bytes like there is nothing there to download.
Because it is just a script, which in turn downloads the nvidia driver. For a legal reasons Novel is not allowed to distribute the driver by themselves.
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
This is strange. It shows Vesa frame buffer. But under options it actually shows tvout support and all that. I ran sax2 -m 0=nvida when it comes up I hit ok. I think it might be the nvida driver I suppose because of the boat load of options I see but it just reads vesa fb. There are no errors in the xorg.log either. Below is the last few lines in the log (**) Mouse[1]: Protocol: "explorerps/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse[1]: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "Buttons" "7" (==) Mouse[1]: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse[1]: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse[1]: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse[1]" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard[0]" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse[1]: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
I just noticed when I go to YOU and click on installable patches it shows the nvidia driver but it shows as 0B as in zero bytes like there is nothing there to download.
Because it is just a script, which in turn downloads the nvidia driver. For a legal reasons Novel is not allowed to distribute the driver by themselves.
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
This is strange. It shows Vesa frame buffer. But under options it actually shows tvout support and all that. I ran sax2 -m 0=nvida when it comes up I hit ok. I think it might be the nvida driver I suppose because of the boat load of options I see but it just reads vesa fb.
There are no errors in the xorg.log either. Below is the last few lines in the log
(**) Mouse[1]: Protocol: "explorerps/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse[1]: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "Buttons" "7" (==) Mouse[1]: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse[1]: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse[1]: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse[1]" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard[0]" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse[1]: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list!
Do you see something like this in the log: (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7676 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver Also, check if there are lines starting with (EE) - these are error messages. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
On 4/11/06, Sunny <sloncho@gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
This is strange. It shows Vesa frame buffer. But under options it actually shows tvout support and all that. I ran sax2 -m 0=nvida when it comes up I hit ok. I think it might be the nvida driver I suppose because of the boat load of options I see but it just reads vesa fb.
There are no errors in the xorg.log either. Below is the last few lines in the log
(**) Mouse[1]: Protocol: "explorerps/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse[1]: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "Buttons" "7" (==) Mouse[1]: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse[1]: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse[1]: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse[1]" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard[0]" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse[1]: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list!
Do you see something like this in the log:
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7676 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
Also, check if there are lines starting with (EE) - these are error messages.
And, what driver is listed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Device section? -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Sunny <sloncho@gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
This is strange. It shows Vesa frame buffer. But under options it actually shows tvout support and all that. I ran sax2 -m 0=nvida when it comes up I hit ok. I think it might be the nvida driver I suppose because of the boat load of options I see but it just reads vesa fb.
There are no errors in the xorg.log either. Below is the last few lines in the log
(**) Mouse[1]: Protocol: "explorerps/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse[1]: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "Buttons" "7" (==) Mouse[1]: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse[1]: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse[1]: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse[1]" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard[0]" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse[1]: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list!
Do you see something like this in the log:
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7676 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
Also, check if there are lines starting with (EE) - these are error messages.
And, what driver is listed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Device section?
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
I think it is surely recognized. Could this be because I got a asus 6600? Section "Device" BoardName "Framebuffer Graphics" BusID "2:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "VESA" EndSection (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7676 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver (II) LoadModule: "kbd" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/kbd_drv.o (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4 (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4 (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux (II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-7676 Fri Jul 29 13:01:02 PDT 2005 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 02:00:0 (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Sunny wrote: I think it is surely recognized. Could this be because I got a asus 6600?
Section "Device" BoardName "Framebuffer Graphics" BusID "2:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "VESA" EndSection
Strange, in my xorg.conf it shows the name of the card. Anyway, it's not importatnt. Do you have in Xorg.0.log something like: (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 6600 Also, when you start sax2, try to change the card to the correct model. I get a little bit lost anyway - I can not recall what happens after you setup the card in runlevel 3 with sax -m 0=nvidia, did you try to issue startx? Does it starts the X server? If not, what errors you see in Xorg.0.log? And, if it works, do it starts OK after reboot in runlevel 5? If not, what are the errors? Sunny -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Sunny wrote: I think it is surely recognized. Could this be because I got a asus 6600?
Section "Device" BoardName "Framebuffer Graphics" BusID "2:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "VESA" EndSection
Strange, in my xorg.conf it shows the name of the card. Anyway, it's not importatnt.
Do you have in Xorg.0.log something like: (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 6600
Also, when you start sax2, try to change the card to the correct model.
I get a little bit lost anyway - I can not recall what happens after you setup the card in runlevel 3 with sax -m 0=nvidia, did you try to issue startx? Does it starts the X server? If not, what errors you see in Xorg.0.log?
And, if it works, do it starts OK after reboot in runlevel 5? If not, what are the errors?
Sunny
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Sunny, Runlevel 5 and everything starts now but seem my logs below, also this was an upgrade to the 6600 from a ati9250. I am thinking about going back to the ATI because it seemed render quicker. Though this card seems to be clearer with my monitor and the fonts are crystal clear. Also within sax2 I do not see a way to change the card to the correct model, it just shows options from with sax2. linux:~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep GPU (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: Unknown (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
On 4/12/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Sunny,
Runlevel 5 and everything starts now but seem my logs below, also this was an upgrade to the 6600 from a ati9250. I am thinking about going back to the ATI because it seemed render quicker. Though this card seems to be clearer with my monitor and the fonts are crystal clear. Also within sax2 I do not see a way to change the card to the correct model, it just shows options from with sax2.
linux:~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep GPU (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: Unknown (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
I would vote against ATI with both hands (I would add the legs as well). Their support is awful (if any at all), and their linux drivers are worse than nvidia's. As an example, with ATI driver, you can not start a second X sever, i.e. you lose the possibility to switch users. It plain kills the machine and needs hard reboot. And this bug is recognized in their readme, and is pending there for more than 2 years (if I recall correctly). After I switched, I can not see any performance loss in 3D and 2D graphics. (I switched from Ati X800 to GeForse 5200). And I play Doom3 and Wolfenstein :) Your card works slower, because the driver does not recognize it for some reason, and use it as VESA framebuffer, without all optimizations and accelerations. Try using nvidia's support knowledge base, as well as their forums to solve the problem. Just reading their linux forum, it looks like they do care about their customers, and try to solve their problems. To anybody reading this post: I do not want to start ATI/Nvidia flame war, so please, feel free not to do this either :) -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Sunny wrote:
On 4/12/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Sunny,
Runlevel 5 and everything starts now but seem my logs below, also this was an upgrade to the 6600 from a ati9250. I am thinking about going back to the ATI because it seemed render quicker. Though this card seems to be clearer with my monitor and the fonts are crystal clear. Also within sax2 I do not see a way to change the card to the correct model, it just shows options from with sax2.
linux:~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep GPU (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: Unknown (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
I would vote against ATI with both hands (I would add the legs as well). Their support is awful (if any at all), and their linux drivers are worse than nvidia's. As an example, with ATI driver, you can not start a second X sever, i.e. you lose the possibility to switch users. It plain kills the machine and needs hard reboot. And this bug is recognized in their readme, and is pending there for more than 2 years (if I recall correctly). After I switched, I can not see any performance loss in 3D and 2D graphics. (I switched from Ati X800 to GeForse 5200). And I play Doom3 and Wolfenstein :)
Thank you for all your help Sunny. For some reason YAST loaded driver 1.07676. I decided to manually load the latest driver 1.08756 from the website and everything is great and it is alot better than my old card. Confused on what happened with YOU though I even used YOU to try and upgraded drivers but it always loaded that one. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Sunny wrote: I think it is surely recognized. Could this be because I got a asus 6600?
Section "Device" BoardName "Framebuffer Graphics" BusID "2:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "VESA" EndSection
Strange, in my xorg.conf it shows the name of the card. Anyway, it's not importatnt.
Do you have in Xorg.0.log something like: (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 6600
Also, when you start sax2, try to change the card to the correct model.
I get a little bit lost anyway - I can not recall what happens after you setup the card in runlevel 3 with sax -m 0=nvidia, did you try to issue startx? Does it starts the X server? If not, what errors you see in Xorg.0.log?
And, if it works, do it starts OK after reboot in runlevel 5? If not, what are the errors?
Sunny
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Not sure if this helps any. KDE is working fine but surely seems to render slower now. (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD0000000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE4000000 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to determine chip name (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: Unknown (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.43.02.72.00 (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 262144 kBytes (II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): CRT-0 (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: maximum pixel clock: 400 MHz (II) Loading sub module "ddc" (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (WW) NVIDIA(0): The user specified VertRefresh "43.000-75.000" has been (WW) NVIDIA(0): adjusted to "49.000-75.000" (the intersection with (WW) NVIDIA(0): EDID-specified VertRefresh "49.000-75.000" (II) NVIDIA(0): Monitor[0]: Using hsync range of 30.00-80.00 kHz (II) NVIDIA(0): Monitor[0]: Using vrefresh range of 49.00-75.00 Hz (II) NVIDIA(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 400.00 MHz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
Sunny wrote:
On 4/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
I just noticed when I go to YOU and click on installable patches it shows the nvidia driver but it shows as 0B as in zero bytes like there is nothing there to download.
Because it is just a script, which in turn downloads the nvidia driver. For a legal reasons Novel is not allowed to distribute the driver by themselves.
-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
This is strange. It shows Vesa frame buffer. But under options it actually shows tvout support and all that. I ran sax2 -m 0=nvida when it comes up I hit ok. I think it might be the nvida driver I suppose because of the boat load of options I see but it just reads vesa fb.
There are no errors in the xorg.log either. Below is the last few lines in the log
(**) Mouse[1]: Protocol: "explorerps/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse[1]: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "Buttons" "7" (==) Mouse[1]: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse[1]: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse[1]: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse[1]" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard[0]" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse[1]: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list!
Do you see something like this in the log:
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7676 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
Also, check if there are lines starting with (EE) - these are error messages.
I do not see any errors (EE) II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7676 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Savage | AOL IM:layer3rules Senior Network Engineer | When it has to be switched or routed. http://www.digitalrage.org | The Information Technology News Center ----- http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key--------
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