Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Roman v. Gemmeren]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I have a huge unsent email sitting here about all my frustrations
> with ATI Radeon adapters. Instead of going down that path with you all
> (Holly - can I write you offline?) ;-) I bought an NVidia adapter from
> 3D Fuzion. It uses a GeForce4 MX 4000, runs at 4X and has 128MB DDR. I
> thought I'd try this out. Low and behold I'm doing worse than with the
> Radeons!
>
>    For configuration I'm working mostly from this page:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
>
>    Currently I have MTTR enabled and /dev/agpgart and agp_via support
> in the kernel. (As modules)
>
>    The NVidia card comes up fine in text mode as I boot, but when the
> machine goes into graphics mode I get only the NVidia logo and a mouse
> arrow. The mouse will move the arrow so the adapter is alive, but
> beyond that I see almost nothing. The screen never goes to the GDM
> login. If I type my user name and password I hear the machine going
> into Gnome but the screen never changes.
>
>    There does appear to be a very small dark area, about the height of
> 1 or 2 pixels, in the upper left corner, but other than that nothing
> but the NVidia logo screen.
>
>    I tried disabling glx loading in xorg.conf but got the same result.
>
>    Bummer!
>
>    I've ssh'ed in. Here's what I'm seeing:
>
> godzilla ~ # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> <SNIP>
> via_agp                 7680  1
> evdev                   7296  0
> realtime                7752  0
> sbp2                   21832  0
> ohci1394               32052  0
> ieee1394               90164  2 sbp2,ohci1394
> nvidia               3464700  12
> agpgart                29384  2 via_agp,nvidia
> godzilla ~ #
>
> mark@godzilla ~ $ dmesg | grep NV
>   BIOS-e820: 000000002ffff000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-6629  Wed Nov
>  3 13:12:51 PST 2004
> mark@godzilla ~ $
>
> mark@godzilla ~ $ dmesg | grep agp
> Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
> agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xfc000000
> agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
> agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
> mark@godzilla ~ $
>
> There are no errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and only a couple of
> warnings. The 'Failed to load GLX' error goes away when I tell
> xorg.conf to load glx:
>
> godzilla ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX
> godzilla ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
> (WW) (1600x1200,My Monitor) mode clock 162MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
> (WW) (1600x1200,My Monitor) mode clock 175.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
> (WW) (1400x1050,My Monitor) mode clock 155.8MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "800x600" (height 1200 is larger than
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "800x600" (height 1200 is larger than
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "700x525" (height 1050 is larger than
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "700x525" (height 1050 is larger than
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
> godzilla ~ #
>
> godzilla ~ # lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
> KT266/A/333]0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7
> [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
> 0000:00:06.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.
> PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (rev 02)
> 0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23
> IEEE-1394 Controller
> 0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9
> [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
> 0000:00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2
> IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME
> Hammerfall DSP (rev 68)
> 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
> 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
> 0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
> 0000:00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18
> [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
> godzilla ~ #
>
>    I've almost never read an NVidia thread on this list some I'm
> starting from nowhere here. I hope this is some stupid mistake some
> nice person out there will recognize and save me from yet another bad
> Linux adapter weekend.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
hi,

looks almost fine to me. I would guess the error is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Could you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

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Ciao,

  Roman v. Gemmeren
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