MrMorden

Thanks for your help, everyone. I'm going to recompile 2.6.12 from source, along with the ck patches. I've been meaning to do that anyway. I'll reply again (or post another topic, whichever is more appropriate) if I need more help after the kernel upgrade.

Hrm...I thought that might be the case...I tried installing the new driver already, but it's complaining that it can't find nvidia.ko and claims that I might have the "wrong kernel sources installed." Argh. Well, I've been meaning to upgrade to 2.6.12...

Tried that too, still doesn't work. Any further suggestions? Once again, thanky you for your help.

Tried inserting your suggestion, it didn't work. Here's my xorg.conf: # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer # Load "dri" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Plug'n Play" HorizSync 31-80 VertRefresh 56-75 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1280x800 ModeLine "1280x800" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848 # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1680x1050 ModeLine "1680x1050" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103 # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1920x1200 ModeLine "1920x1200" 230 1920 1936 2096 2528 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" Option "NvAGP" "3" # Option "RenderAccel" "true" # Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection Oh, and thanks for your help! Edit: added thanks :D

Hello, everyone: When I run glxinfo, it says Direct rendering: no. In my attempts to solve this problem, I have googled the following: (www.google.com/linux, of course) Direct rendering won't work Direct rendering doesn't work How to enable direct rendering How to enable direct rendering Mandrake 10.1 How to turn on direct rendering Mandrake 10.1 and similar. I have also attempted to modify xorg.conf, adding the following: Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" Neither of which worked. I also attempted to give all users permission to read and write from all nivida devices (chomd 666 /dev/nvidia*) which did not work either. My system configuration is as follows: Distro: Mandrake 10.1 Video card: GeForce FX 5900 Ultra Video driver: Nvidia display driver 1.0-6629 Kernel: 2.6.8.1-12mdkcustom CPU: Athlon XP 3200+ Motherboard: Giga-byte 7NNXP Also, when running glxgears I get about 3k FPS running at 1280x1024 24 bit depth. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Edit: Corrected video driver version

GeForce FX 5900 256MB 15811 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3162.200 FPS 15796 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3159.200 FPS 15811 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3162.200 FPS Something odd, though...when I run glxinfo it says that direct rendering is off...but isn't the kind of performance I'm getting inconsistent with lacking hardware acceleration? I have the drivers for my video card installed. Is glxinfo returning wrong information or is there something else I have to do to get hardware acceleration?

You can still find the nitro patch for the 2.6.10 kernel here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=276468 If enough people on this board care about this thing, maybe the mods might see fit to host it here?

Fixed it, thanks aioshin. -MrMorden

I think I've found the culprit, but I can't seem to do anything about it. When I start an instance of mcc --root, and go to secuirity - permissions, it says that /usr/* is owned by root (user and group), and it won't let me modify that entry. Any suggestions? -MrMorden

Being the n00b that I was when I first installed Mandrake 10.1 (at least a bigger n00b than I am now), I didn't allocate any space for a /home partition. So, no big deal, thought I, I'd just set up a directory under /usr/ called /res/ and give myself ownership of it. So I made a directory /usr/res/ and gave the user ownership of it, using an instance of konqueror with supervisor permissions. (ie, kdesu konqueror) However, every so often, Linux decides to return the ownership of /usr/res/ to root! Is there a permanent way to give the user ownership of /usr/res/, am I doing something I shouldn't be doing (and hence Mandrake is trying to prevent me from doing it), or is there another explanation of what's going on? I'm using Mandrake 10.1 official. Thank you, -MrMorden

I've been poking around the BIOS, and I can't find an option that says something along the lines of Plug and Play: Enable/disable. The closest thing I could find was a section called "PnP/PCI Configuration" which has an "Auto/manual" assignment option for PCI devices. Of course, setting this option to manual did not fix the problem. As for the desktop/laptop thing, my computer is a desktop, not a laptop.

Nope, single processor setup here, and I've got about 10 devices that call for an interrupt and 15 interrupts all told. As for APIC's supposed functionality (har, har) you seem more knolwedgable than I am, and my understanding came from a brief glance at linuxquestion's Linux Wiki, so you're probably right. In any case, thanks for the possible solution, when it happens next time, I'll try turning off APIC in lilo. Regards, MrMorden

From what I gather, APIC is supposed to (har, har) allow multiple pieces of hardware to access the same interrupt, right? So why does it work flawlessly in Windows but not in Linux? What effect would setting apic=off or lapic=off in lilo have on my computer, besides possibly fixing the problem?

How's this for irony? Immediately after I post, I decide "I'll try ONE MORE THING," which was setting IRQ 9 to "reserved," where Nvidia Nforce 2 would show up as XT-PIC. Now it's showing up on IRQ 4 as IO-APIC-edge, and it's working. As grateful as I am that it's no longer broken, I find it frustrating that I don't know why it's fixed or why it broke again in the first place. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, -MrMorden Edit: Finished a sentence

Hey everyone: My sound suddenly stopped working, for no apparent reason. So I went back to /proc/interrupts and found that Linux had, for some reason, assigned the same interrupt to both eth0 and Nvidia NForce2. This means, of course, that the sound will only work if I'm not connected to the 'net. I managed to solve this problem before by mucking around in the BIOS, but I'm not sure exactly what I did. (That is, I wasn't sure what I was doing the first time; not that I solved it with full knowledge and forgot.) So I spent another hour changing around the PnP/IRQ settings, and the few times I managed to "trick" Linux into putting eth0 and Nvidia NForce2 on separate interrupts, the sound still refused to work. I suspect that this has something to do with the fact that the interrupt with NForce2 was listed as XT-PIC instead of IO-APIC-edge like everything else. I suspect this because I can get the sound working properly if I disconnect eth0, and in this case the interrupt with Nvidia Nforce2 is listed as IO-APIC-edge. System information is as follows: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7NNXP (NForce2) Processor: Athlon XP 3200+ kernel: 2.6.8.1-12mdkcustom Version: Mandrake 10.1 Official Thank you! -MrMorden

Well, like I said in the OP, I found someone who fixed the problem by throwing in a dedicated sound card...but I'm kinda loath to spend $80 for an Audigy2 when I'm not even sure it will help.

So...would buying a sound card that does hardware mixing fix the problem?

All right, that one worked! Can you tell me how you got that file? I'd like to see an example of your probelm-solving in action. However, the combined sound and music for Vegastrike STILL isn't working...I think I'll try talking to the vegastrike devs some more... Thanks for your help!

Here's some additional weirdness; it may somehow be related. I can get alsaplayer to play .wav files, but not .mp3's.

Output of lsmod: snd-seq-oss 32704 0 snd-seq-midi-event 6464 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq 50576 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 50856 0 snd-mixer-oss 18112 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 29772 0 snd-ac97-codec 68496 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm 84552 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0 snd-timer 22148 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-page-alloc 7496 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm gameport 3456 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-mpu401-uart 6208 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-rawmidi 20836 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 6472 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 45412 11 snd-seq-oss, snd-seq, snd-pcm-oss, snd-mixer-oss, snd-intel8x0, snd-ac97-codec, snd-pcm, snd-timer, snd-mpu401-uart, snd-rawmidi, snd-seq-device floppy 54096 0 md5 3648 1 ipv6 244612 8 ipt_TOS 1920 12 ipt_REJECT 5568 4 ipt_pkttype 1344 4 ipt_LOG 5824 8 ipt_state 1472 9 ipt_multiport 1664 0 ipt_conntrack 2112 0 iptable_mangle 2176 1 ip_nat_irc 3568 0 ip_nat_tftp 2928 0 ip_nat_ftp 4272 0 iptable_nat 22124 3 ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_irc 70512 1 ip_nat_irc ip_conntrack_tftp 2992 0 ip_conntrack_ftp 71344 1 ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack 29736 9 ipt_state, ipt_conntrack, ip_nat_irc, ip_nat_tftp, ip_nat_ftp, iptable_nat, ip_conntrack_irc, ip_conntrack_tftp,ip_conntrack_ftp iptable_filter 2176 1 ip_tables 16064 10 ipt_TOS, ipt_REJECT, ipt_pkttype, ipt_LOG, ipt_state, ipt_multiport, ipt_conntrack, iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter nls_iso8859-1 3776 1 af_packet 17352 4 nvidia 3468316 12 nvnet 69348 0 genrtc 8244 0

Hrm...it didn't work. Is it a better idea to just throw $40 at a sound card than try to figure out how dmix is supposed to work? All the stuff I've been able to dig up on it seems pretty damn arcane.

Well, I tried using esddsp, and as soon as I did something that called for a sound effect (sc, fireing my ship's guns) the performance immediately went to crap. The sound became choppy and my framerate took a dive from ~150 fps to ~10 fps. Does this mean I need to use dmix, or is there some other trick for making the sound wrapper work properly? If I do need to use dmix, where/how do I get the plug-in, or tell if I already have it? Digging around the wiki (http://wiki.arslinux.com/Dmix) isn't helpful.

Hey, everyone: My computer won't play multiple sounds at the same time. I have diaganosed this problem by attempting to open different programs that access the sound at the same time, namely AlsaPlayer and Kaffeine. If AlsaPlayer is open when I try to open Kaffeine, Kaffeine will say that "all audio drivers failed to initialize" and crash. If I attempt to open an instance of AlsaPlayer while Kaffeine is open, AlsaPlayer will not load until I stop the media clip. In addition, when attempting to run Vegastrike (http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net) I can consistently get music but no sound (by loading esd) or sound but no music (by not loading esd.) The devs at the vegastrike message board say that both sound and music should be working properly if esd is running. In my attempts to solve the problem, I have googled the following: multiple sounds at once NForce2 "multiple sounds" at once NForce2 multiple sounds NForce2 As well as search the Vegastrike message boards and these boards. I did find someone with the same problem, but he solved it by putting in a dedicated sound card. Here is my system info: Mandrake 10.1 Offiical kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdkcustom Giga-byte 7NNXP (NForce2 chipset) with dirver intel8x0 Athalon XP 3200+ Thank you, MrMorden

"It's not a bug - it's a feature." Where have we heard that before? :P In all honesty, though, I do see your point. I'll add nvidia to modprobe.preload, thanks again.

Not unless "upgrading the kernel" means something different from "recompiling the kernel," since I haven't done a kernel recompile in a while.