On Friday 21 September 2001 7:13 pm, Tracer Bullet wrote:
Hey all, HELP!! I am almost at the end of my rope people, can anyone offer any insight to this problem? I have a Nvidia TNT2 Vanta 16mb agp video card installed in my system. The last two driver upgrades that have been available for the Nvidia cards have not worked for me. I get complete lockup when the kernel and/or X or XFree86 is loaded at the login screen! Everything quits except for the mouse movement, can't get to a console window or anything, a reset is all that will suffice. Cannot start up in runlevel 3 console mode and run any graphics stuff, Xwindows, Sax2, nothing! I end up having to reinstall v1.0-1251 to get things fixed again. I have tried several suggestions presented here by other users and from SuSE support as well with no success. I am at this point thinking it may be the video card that is the problem for others here with the GeForce boards do not seem to have this problem.
Can anyone help figure this out? Thanks
I just checked out the readme file at ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/README. It mentions that the RIVA 128/128ZX chips are supported by the open source 'nv' driver for XFree86, but not by the NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set. Are you certain that you have a Vanta? If you want to check your Device PCI IDs, you can use `lspci -n` (su root) and look for the devide with vendor id "10de". You should see: 02:00.0 Class 0300:10de:002C (rev ??) for your card if it's a Vanta. I wonder if this is where your problem lies? Otherwise, there is a pretty good troubleshhoting section in the same file. Appendix C also provides some useful information re. symlinks and shared libraries. BTW, I use an ELSA TNT2 and have had no problems with the drivers from NVidia (yet to try latest release) when updating XFree86-4.0 using YOU. I assume your XF86Config file does use the 'nvidia' (not 'nv') driver and loads the 'glx' module? M