On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:04:09 +0000
"Elvis Chen"
First of all, my hardwares:
Asus S8V with 1gig of ram (512x2)
That has the nvidia chipset, hasn't it?
After some search (google is your friend) I found that problem is NOT isolated. It had something to do with how AGP is handled with kernel 2.4. So far, I have successfully got nvidia's driver to work by disabling AGP: by adding the following line in my /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Option "NvAGP" "0" # or 1, doesn't matter
By doing this, when X starts I get the nvidia's splash screen. Running glxgear I'll get something like 500FPS, which is pathetic (in comparison, my Athlon XP 2400+ with Ti4200 gets 6500FPS), but still better than then 150FPS of the "nv" driver.
Setting NvAGP to 2 will results in locking up X.
My question is, is there anyway to get AGP/nvidia to work with kernel 2.4? My (limited) understanding is that one has to use amd64_agp instead of AGPGART for nvidia's driver to work, but amd64_agp is a feature that is only
2.4 has an AMD64 AGP driver builtin too, it just has a different name. You could try the latest 9.0 update kernel, it had a few AGP fixes.
available in kernel 2.6. I have tried to compile kernel 2.6.4 (standard from kernel.org) but ran into the (another) famous problem of "unable to mount VFS" problem, which trashed the partition and hence the existing 2.4 (Suse 9.0) installation.
Trashed the partition? normally that message shouldn't write anything to disk. -Andi