I have several workstations running with the Nvidia driver. There were
several problems early on....
Check /var/log/boot.msg to make sure that the kernel sees the AGP device...
<6>Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
<6>agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 5944M
<6>agpgart: Detected AMD 8151 chipset
<6>agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
<6>PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture
Check /var/log/XFree86.0.log for the following line...
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to verify AGP usage
This line indicates that the Nvidia driver could not recognize the AGP
tunnel, so it runs via the PCI interface (SLOW :)
The line should look like this...
(II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 8X successfully initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1600x1200,1600x1200"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
Make sure that you are running a current kernel. There were issues with
AGP in the 2.4.21.102 kernel that you get if you run right out ot the box.
I am running the 2.4.21-193 kernel, and am testing the current 2.4.21-201
kernel on a machine now. It seems to be working fine.
Check for an updated BIOS for your motherboard. I have systems running the
TYAN S2885 dual cpu motherboard with the v102 BIOS that work. On the
single processor S2875 motherboard, the BIOS that was on the web site did
not work with AGP on AMD64 Linux. I have a beta BIOS that seems to fix the
problem. I don't have any experience with the MSI board, so not sure if
that is your problem or not....
Kevin Gassiot
Advanced Systems Group
Visualization Systems Support
Veritas DGC
10300 Town Park Dr.
Houston, Texas 77072
832-351-8978
kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com
Jeroen Leijen
Has anyone got X running using the Nvidia AMD64 1.0-5332 drivers?
I compiled and installed the drivers according the instructions as supplied by nvidia. On my system (suse 9.0, k_deflt 2.4.21.201.x86_64, msi k8t neo fisr, athlon 64 3000, msi geforce fx5200) sax2 shows only a blank screen.
Thanks Jeroen Amsterdam
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