santner Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 I finally got my nvidia card installed and working with the correct driver(driver "nvidia") :P , but when I issue the command: cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Disabled It says that the driver/card is disabled? How can this be? Is there a file where this can be enabled? I also issued: lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia 2068232 36 So the module is loaded. Also, on glxgears I am at 930 fps and the card that I have is an nvidia GeForce FX 5200 with 128 MB of RAM. Does anyone have some input on this? Thanks, Shane [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDR60 Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Hey I have a how to on my site for getting the Nvidia drivers working. Check your XF86Config-4 file and be sure that glx is loading and also that the drivers listed is nvidia. The default is nv. I like installing from the install script form source. It works every time. Check it out at www.linuxloader.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Have you tried running glxinfo? or even better: glxinfo | grep "direct rendering:" If it returns no, the drivers aren't working, a yes and they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted May 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Direct rendering actually is enabled. glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" direct rendering: Yes I was just concerned about the status: disabled. Should I just ignore it and assume that it is working properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 try running glxgears - and see how many fps you get. If you post that data, along with which card you've got we'll have a pretty good idea if everything is working (early idications seem to be that everything is ok). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted May 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Here is my card: CHAINTECH nVIDIA GeForce FX5200 Video Card, 128MB DDR, 64-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP ***** Although my mobo only supports speeds of 4x Also, on glxgears I am getting around 930 fps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 I'd say 930 is a little low for that card, but its much higher than you'd see if the nvidia drivers weren't working. Another good test is to run tuxracer, if you can play it - the 3D acceleration is ok. I'm not sure what you can do about tweaking the drivers to get more speed out of them, or get rid of the agp disabled. Perhaps you could try looking at the agpart nvidia module option. A good place to look for further help is nvnews, could you please post back onto this thread if you get it sorted? HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 check for settings in the bios and try different NvAGP settings, or whatever, in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. SEE: the nvidia README for those settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted May 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 I think this is the solution from the nvidia readme.txt: There are several choices for configuring the NVIDIA kernel module's use of AGP: you can choose to either use NVIDIA's AGP module (NVAGP), or the AGP module that comes with the linux kernel (AGPGART). This is controlled through the "NvAGP" option in your XF86Config file: Option "NvAgp" "0" ... disables AGP support Option "NvAgp" "1" ... use NVAGP, if possible Option "NvAgp" "2" ... use AGPGART, if possible Option "NvAGP" "3" ... try AGPGART; if that fails, try NVAGP Somehow my system must have defaulted to disabling AGP support. I will try to fix this tonight when I get home. I'll post tomorrow to confirm if this is in fact the correct solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted May 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 Some interesting developements. It turns out that I already had: Options "NvAGP" "1" in my XF86Config file, but when I tried to change it to a 2 or 3, then the screen outputs strange characters, mostly in black and white but also in a strange neon green color, similar to the PASS color on bootup. So I tried: lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia 2068232 24 lsmod | grep agpgart agpgart 31016 1 via-agp cat /proc/drivers/nvidia/agp/status Status: Disabled Still disabled From my previous post, "NvAGP" "1" means that I am using the nvidia AGP driver, and 2 means that I am using the linux kernel AGP driver. I don't know what else to try. Is there some file somewhere where I could enable the AGP? I already checked the BIOS and everything is as it should be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 santner: I too have NvAGP set to 1 and am getting Status:Disabled from cat /proc/drivers/nvidia/agp/status setting anything other than 1 results in the same problems as you're experiencing. i've been trying to figure this out for a while now...but I can't seem to. my FPS are a bit higher, but I have the FX5600 w/256MB of memory so that should be expected. it's annoying, isn't it? wish I could help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted May 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 As my status indicates, I am new to this forum. If this is inappropriate, let me know. I just thought that I would move this over to the previous thread so that others can pick up where we left off. Thanks. In my XFree86.config file, I have: Options "NvAGP" "1" which as I understand from the readme.txt file: Option "NvAGP" "integer" Configure AGP support. Integer argument can be one of: 0 : disable agp 1 : use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible 2 : use AGPGART, if possible 3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP) Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot work if AGPGART is either statically compiled into your kernel or is built as a module, but loaded into your kernel (some distributions load AGPGART into the kernel at boot up). Default: 3 (the default was 1 until after 1.0-1251). So from the above paragraph I understand that I need to disable AGPGART from loading automatically at startup so that the nvidia internal AGP support will work. Is this how you see it? If so, where can I go to disable AGPGART at startup? I imagine somewhere in /etc/modules*? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted May 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 It seems like it might have something to do with AGPGART getting loaded at bootup. Have you tried to disable the code that auto loads it and see if that changes anything? I'm at work, so I have to wait in anticipation all day long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I'm at work too...but when I get home I'll look into it. what time zone are you in andwhen do you get off of work? I'm off at around 5 EDT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted May 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I get home around 6 EDT, although I don't usually get the chance to do anything on my system until later that night after my 10 month old daughter goes to sleep :D . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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