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