Turb0flat4

Really, really appreciate the help guys. You've been more patient and helpful than I could've hoped for. :) I have some small amount of extra info for you that may or may not help.

I'm in Windows now. There's a freeware utility called FreshDiagnose that can assess the state of the AGP bus. According to it, the AGP is enabled and working. I attached a snapshot of the relevant section here.

Now, in that FPS game that I'm becoming addicted to (which has equivalent versions under Linux and Win), the frame rates for the Windows version are somewhat (like 20 to 30 %) better, but not massively better. In fact, to get decent (30 frames per sec) movement, I need to downgrade my graphics in Windows to 800*600 with 32 bit color. For very good playability (50 to 70 fps), I need to go all the way to 640*480, even in Windows. This is similar to Linux, although in Linux, it's still slower at every resolution and color depth I set.

So I really dunno whether the AGP is really not being initialised under Linux or whether that's just a misleading message ? :unsure:

I'm booted into Windows right now, but luckily I've installed ext2fs R/W.

Here's the dump from /etc/modprobe.preload : (I'm viewing this thru' a Windows text editor, I hope the formatting's OK, I dunno why via_agp appears twice).

# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
# for old kernel use /etc/modules

via-agp
via-agp

So I should comment out the via_agp lines ? Do I need to make any other alterations ? Thanks, will try this when I next boot into Linux.

Oh, yeah, this may be important. Interestingly, when I ran the search, I found another file called "#modprobe.preload#" which may be a recovered file from an unclean shutdown (power loss). This file (the ? recovered file fragment) has these contents :

# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
# for old kernel use /etc/modules

via-agp
via-agp
nvidi

And the file seems to end there. This looks suggestive - do you think the original file had nvidia_agp or something there and this got lost during the recovery ? Maybe the NVIDIA AGP was being loaded by this old file but is not being loaded anymore since the crash. What should I put in the new file to rectify the problem ? Thanks.

Unfortunately, the downgrade to versio 7174 didn't help. AGP still not initialising :(

Here's the output from "lsmod | grep agp"

/sbin/lsmod | grep agp
via_agp				 7584  0
agpgart				29032  2 nvidia,via_agp

Hmm. The README for the 8756 claims that this driver will support the GeForce 2 MX400. Oh, well, wouldn't hurt to try the earlier driver. :)

Well, the problem may not be the video card you have - it may be the kernel, though usually the problem is reverse (older drivers not working with newer kernels), but it's a possibility. You should check to see what AGP your system is loading:

lsmod | grep agp

just to be sure you're getting agpgart.

Well, my dmesg shows this line :

Linux agpgart interface v0.101 © Dave Jones

so I should have agpgart right ?

Hmm. The README for the 8756 claims that this driver will support the GeForce 2 MX400. Oh, well, wouldn't hurt to try the earlier driver. :)

Thanks for the clarification, tyme. I need AGPART for my Chipset, according to the readme.

OK, my mistake. ;)

 

Are you running Mandriva 2006? Are you running the latest nvidia driver? I have seen several posts here indicating there may be a problem with the latest nvidia driver. There also seems to be a problem with the xorg in Mandriva 2006.

 

If you are running 2006, make sure all updates have been installed to correct any xorg difficulties.

 

Try running an older version of the nvidia driver if you are running the latest.

 

One last thought has just occurred to me. The last nvidia driver version which will work with a GeForce2 is 7174. Are you trying to run a version newer than this?

I am running 8756 on Mandriva 2006 free, you mean I should roll it back ?

I had problems with 8756 and kernel 2.6.12-12mdk which comes with the install DVD for Mandriva. I rolled it back to 8178 and it worked fine. Then I upgraded the kernel to the latest stable 2.6.12-18mdk and then upgraded the driver to 8756 and it seemed to work with the newer kernel.

But then I have these problems - so maybe it's not really working well at all.

BTW, I tried adding the extra lines I saw in your xorg.conf (like NvAGP "3" and so forth) to mine. I couldn't add them under driver "nvidia" - x wouldn't start saying that lines like Option "DPMS" were not in the right section. So I added them later on under the Screen Section. No error message this time, and X would start with the NVIDIA splash screen, but AGP still failed to initialise (no improvement over before). So those extra lines didn't help. Setting AGP rate to 2X failed to help either.

I will try rolling back the driver when I am next booting into Linux. Greatly appreciate your patient help, Dan. :) :)

I am confused. I thought you were originally using the nvidia driver.

 

With the nvidia driver now installed, what does cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status give? What is your glxgears score?

No, I was always using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers for Linux. I booted into Windows for comparison (I have a dual boot with XP). I hadn't previously installed the NVIDIA drivers under Windows (since the Win drivers work well with DirectX rendering), but I wanted to use OpenGL to compare, so I got the Windows NVIDIA proprietary drivers too.

Sorry for the confusion. All the earlier posts in the thread pertain to NVIDIA proprietary drivers under Linux. Only my latest post referenced WinXP. I'm looking for a glxgears program for Windows to run a comparison with the results in Linux, but cannot find it.

Can you try to force the card to run at AGP 2X in the bios instead of 4X

Tried but it didn't help.

I booted into WinXP and ran DXDIAG - indicates that my AGP is running OK under windows, and all the tests were OK. I d/led the OpenGL drivers from NVIDIA and they seem to work. The frame rates are somewhat better than the equivalent ones I was getting under Linux for Tremulous (an FPS game), and the gameplay seems smoother. So it may be a purely Linux problem (or the Linux NVIDIA driver problem).

This sux. :(

what motherboard do you have?

MSI V-class VIA P4M800 + VT8237 chipset

model PM8M-V

Intel Celeron 2.26 GHz if that helps.

Here is my entire xorg.conf :

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "monitor1"
   VendorName "Plug'n Play"
   ModelName "BenQ T705"
   HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0
   VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
   ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
   ModeLine "768x576" 50.0 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630
   ModeLine "768x576" 63.1 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Wed Mar 29 14:43:26 PST 2006

# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "layout1"
   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   Screen "screen1" 0 0
EndSection

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 "Module"
   Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
   Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
   Load "extmod"
   Load "type1"
   Load "freetype"
   Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
   #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
   #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

   # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
   Option "allowmouseopenfail"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Keyboard1"
   Driver "keyboard"
   Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option "XkbLayout" "us"
   Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device1"
   VendorName "nVidia Corp."
   BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)"
   Driver "nvidia"
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
   Option "DPMS"
EndSection

There are obviously parts referencing the AGP missing from my file which are present in yours. I just let the installer do the modification. Are these missing parts the key or is it a BIOS problem ?

I couldn't find a BIOS setting to disable the onboard video. I'll have to look again. :( Really appreciate your ongoing help, thanks.

I have a geforce2 card as well. My glxgears score is 859 with the small window.

 

As root type these commands to make some checks:

...

Thank you ! Now I know the problem is with the AGP slot. Here's my output.

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status && cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card && cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Status:		  Disabled

AGP initialization failed, please check the ouput
of the 'dmesg' command and/or your system log file
for additional information on this problem.
Fast Writes:	 Supported
SBA:			 Not Supported
AGP Rates:	   4x 2x 1x
Registers:	   0x1f000017:0x00000000
Host Bridge:	 PCI device 1106:0314
Fast Writes:	 Supported
SBA:			 Supported
AGP Rates:	   4x 2x 1x
Registers:	   0x07000217:0x00000000

Should I do anything with the BIOS ? Problem is, it all seems OK, and some of the options look a little cryptic. Here's roughly what I have in the BIOS :

AGP Aperture size : 64 MB (was previously at 128 MB, but I reset it, since I only have a 64 MB card)

AGP rate : 4X (max)

AGP fast writes : ENABLED (was previously disabled, but it doesn't make a difference to the performance)

Video Share RAM : DISABLED (was previously 64 MB) I don't know what this option is for exactly, but it sounds like it pertains to the onboard card rather than the add-on so I disabled it. It doesn't affect the output of the commands).

Memory hole : DISABLED

There are some other settings which I forget (and since it's the BIOS I can't copy and paste). Please let me know if you need added info. Also, here's the dmesg output, I put the whole thing in the codebox.

dmesg
Linux version 2.6.12-18mdk (qateam@mercury.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0)) #1 Wed Mar 15 13:15:23 MST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
126MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f37c0
On node 0 totalpages: 261872
 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
 HighMem zone: 32496 pages, LIFO batch:15
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 P4M80P								) @ 0x000f7950
ACPI: RSDT (v001 P4M80P AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef3040
ACPI: FADT (v001 P4M80P AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef30c0
ACPI: MADT (v001 P4M80P AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef8240
ACPI: DSDT (v001 P4M80P AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 3ff00000 (gap: 3ff00000:bed00000)
Built 1 zonelists
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=341 resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 2268.860 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1033476k/1047488k available (2348k kernel code, 13224k reserved, 717k data, 268k init, 129984k highmem, 0k BadRAM)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 4472.83 BogoMIPS (lpj=2236416)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000441d 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU: Intel® Celeron® CPU 2.26GHz stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 435k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf9f50, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
EHCI early BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?)
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs *20)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs *21)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs *22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs *23)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 © Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x500-0x50f has been reserved
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1145778811.077:0): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3750k, total 65536k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c060
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 34430 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 34382 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 93x30
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 0xc
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 112
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
pktcdvd: v0.2.0a 2004-07-14 Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de) and petero2@telia.com
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.1, from 255 to 4
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC35L120AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: SONY DVD RW DW-G120A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX230E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 39876480 sectors (20416 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63
hdb: cache flushes not supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 >
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
ACPI wakeup devices:
SLPB PCI0 USB3 USB4 USB5 USB6 USB7 LAN0 AC97 UAR1
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 3 devices found
devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for md/0
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 368KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... <6>input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.11 loaded.
sata_via version 1.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.0, from 11 to 4
sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 4
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0f.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF000 ctl 0xEC02 bmdma 0xE000 irq 20
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE402 bmdma 0xE008 irq 20
ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi0 : sata_via
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi1 : sata_via
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 0x0000d400
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000d000
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 11 to 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 0x0000cc00
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 11 to 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 21, io base 0x0000c800
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.4, from 11 to 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.4 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 21, io mem 0xfdffd000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
 Vendor: Maxtor 6  Model: Y080L0			Rev: YAR4
 Type:   Direct-Access					  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
 Vendor: Generic   Model: USB Storage-CFC   Rev: I19A
 Type:   Direct-Access					  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
 Vendor: Generic   Model: USB Storage-SDC   Rev: I19A
 Type:   Direct-Access					  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
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usb-storage: device scan complete
SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
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SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
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kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
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drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
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drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
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Adding 1060248k swap on /dev/hdb5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
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NTFS driver 2.1.22 [Flags: R/O DEBUG MODULE].
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EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
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EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 34430 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 34382 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
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ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [RTMP] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND
search_node c18ec820 start_node c18ec820 return_node 00000000
ACPI-1138: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node c18ec820), AE_NOT_FOUND
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
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IPVS: Each connection entry needs 120 bytes at least
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IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
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NET: Registered protocol family 17
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8e7a000, 00:30:4f:26:66:74, IRQ 18
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
eth0: link down
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [ALKD] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:12.0, from 5 to 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:12.0 to 64
eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0x1c000, 00:16:17:12:b7:79, IRQ 23.
eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 41e1.
eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-255SP
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate.
	 Please try dxs_support=5 option
	 and report if it works on your machine.
	 For more details, read ALSA-Configuration.txt.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> Link [ALKC] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.5, from 11 to 6
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nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
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bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on

Please help if you can, thanks.

Yes, but I still don't see the exact difference b/w issuing "export PATH=..." compard to simply "PATH=..."

Just wondering, what should the window size be when glxgears is run ? The default window is mini-sized but can be resized. Should it be made fullscreen for a valid frame rate ? The frame rate when the window is small is much greater than when it is full screen.

Also should the focus be on the window with the moving gears or on the terminal that launched it ? Thanks.

BTW, I use an NVIDIA GeForce MX2 card with 64MB RAM plugged into AGP with the NVIDIA drivers. Screen res is 1280*1024 (lcd)

In a small window, glxgears gives me around 330 frames per second. Full screen, it's only 30 frames/second. Is this abnormally low ?

When I shift the focus completely off the windows I get over 2000 frames per second registering on the console. :huh:

Here's the output from glxinfo.

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
   GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
   GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
   GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
   GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
   GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
   GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
GLX extensions:
   GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
   GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
   GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce2 MX/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.5.6 NVIDIA 87.56
OpenGL extensions:
   GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
   GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
   GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
   GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
   GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
   GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
   GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
   GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
   GL_S3_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra,
   GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
   GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_Cg_shader,
   GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
   GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_paletted_texture, GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object,
   GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
   GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette,
   GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc,
   GL_EXT_texture_cube_map, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,
   GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
   GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod,
   GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
   GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
   GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_fence,
   GL_NV_fog_distance, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil,
   GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_register_combiners,
   GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_env_combine4,
   GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vertex_array_range,
   GL_NV_vertex_array_range2, GL_NV_vertex_program, GL_NV_vertex_program1_1,
   GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_multitexture, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
   GL_SUN_slice_accum
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
   GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

the slowdown at high quality is most likely due to your video card. it's a little old, and doesn't have much ram. by comparison i have a geforce 6600GT with 128MB of ram...and even it's a little slow on some games ;)

Thanks, I had to lower the quality of textures to get smooth playability.

BTW, foot, I've sorta been banned from one of the servers - I was being an idiot, there was noone else logged on so I decided to see if I could shoot my own turret till it blew up (I could). Then I got banned.

Is it by handle or IP ? Permanent or I will be let back in later ? Thanks. I feel like such a noob (I am, at this sort of thing). :lol:

I dunno, everything seems OK in my xorg.conf.

I get better 20+ fps and much more fluid motion if I'm running medium or low quality rendering for the textures etc. but if I put everything at the highest, it gets as low as 8 or 9 fps when there's a lot of stuff going on.

This is a 64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX400 card (AGP), I never really game, so I don't know how good it should be. What card are you using ? And are you running highest quality for the rendering ?

Problem may be with BIOS settings, next time I boot up I will see if I get any better after disabling the onboard video.

So basically "export PATH" is useless ? If I only want to change the PATH in one terminal, I can just do "PATH=$PATH:(extra stuff)" right ?

I'm trying to see what use the "export" syntax has, right now, it looks useless to me.

Thanks, the screen res worked.

I just did the spectator thing, looked really cool. Was only getting 17 fps, is that OK ? I'm using a fairly old Nvidia GeForce MX card with the binary drivers from the vendor.

it will only affect terminals/processes that are started after you set it.

 

what happens, is that processes inherit environmental variables from their parent process, and so when you start X, all the GUI apps that start inherit their variables from when you started. if you for example, click an icon on your kde panel, it will inherit PATH from the panel, which inherited at startup. the only way to reload the PATH to these apps, is to restart them.

 

James

But even if I open up a Konsole window, do the export PATH thing and then try to open a new shell or a new window from that previous Konsole, the PATH in the newly spawned Konsole windows is stil the default PATH, not the new one I set.

Just trying to understand under what circumstances I can do this. Thanks.

I'm at 1280X1024 resolution and I can't seem to get Supertux to display fullscreen (it's centered with a black surround). This is despite starting it with "supertux --fullscreen" etc.

Ppracer is fullscreen. Wonder why there's a difference.

Any way to get Supertux to size up to fill the screen ? Thanks.

Looks very polished. Install was a no brainer.

I'm very new to games (never used to play them even on Windows). When I start the game I get a display centered in the screen with a black surround. I'm at 1280X1024 resolution, how do I get the game to go fullscreen ? Thanks.

Also, the server list is empty. Can I just play a standalone game or must I join a game server of some sort ? Many thanks.

I restarted the session and could get the new PATH. I just thought there's a way to get the new PATH working for all terminals without logging out (by logging out, I stopped running processes like my Azureus).

I really thought export PATH would do it. That was what I got from this website : http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/KB/BasicsBshell5

export PATH=$PATH:/some/directory

 

If you now open a new terminal and type echo $PATH, you will see the new value of $PATH in this terminal, too. Notice, however, that the 'export' command only sets or changes variables for the terminal it is run in and terminals which are started after it has been run. Terminals which were already open will still have the old $PATH.

I need to reset my $PATH to include my path to java (/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin)

so I did this :

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin

when I did this from the same term

echo $PATH 

it included the new addition. However, when I did the same from a new shell which I opened, the PATH reverted to the old one. From my limited reading isn't "export PATH" supposed to add to the PATH variable for all subsequently opened terminals ?

In any case, I added the PATH to my ~/.bash_profile, so I'll get it next time I reboot. But I want to have this in my global PATH without rebooting, how to do it ? Thanks.

The reason I went away from Ubuntu (I used the original one with GNOME) was that I just couldn't reconcile myself with the sudo way of doing things - essentially one is logged in as root all the time.

Can't beat the free CDs (free shipping here to Singapore too) offer though. I have a lot of pretty CDs in pretty envelopes sitting around, waiting for me to hand them out to people.

This will sort you out:

 

rpm -ql win32-codecs

 

the ql (QL) command lists files based on the package name provided.

 

As an note about Arch Linux, it's codecs are partially screwed for some wmv's. Some I couldn't play in Arch, but they worked perfectly fine under Mandriva. Otherwise, it was mostly OK with it's codecs. I like Arch, but there are some problems with it, including that I couldn't get my printer to work under KDE - wouldn't print. I've since reverted to Mandriva, because I can also use my Lotus Notes under wine, which I can't with Arch.

Thanks, I did that, but it's no good for these files. I'll see if I can play them under Windows when I boot into it next.

BTW, I did "ldconfig" after installing the codecs in /usr/lib - Is that sufficient ?

And when exactly are "ldconfig", "modprobe" and "depmod" necessary (I mean, after what sort of changes). Thanks, and sorry for the slightly off topic enquiry.

Prebuilt win32codecs packages are sometimes crippled (not in my disto, Arch Linux, but it happens in many others). Since all the files in that package are static, the best solution is getting the full codecs package from the mplayer site and extracting it at your mplayer addons directory.

Do you know where the urpmi installs the codecs by default (so I can manually add to it) ? Thanks.