Video woes

[flarefox]

This is what it said:

 

[dee@DeePC2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux DeePC2 2.6.16-1mdksmp #1 SMP Tue May 23 01:02:05 WEST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ unknown GNU/Linux
[dee@DeePC2 ~]$ ls -l /usr/src
total 3
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:15 ati-8.23.7/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  864 Jul  1 15:47 ati-8.25.18.2.mdk2006.0.mde/
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  528 Jul  1 02:22 drm-2.0.54.mdk2006.0.mde/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:15 fcdsl2-3.11.07/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:15 fcdsl-3.11.07/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:15 fcdslsl-3.11.07/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fcdslslusb-3.11.05/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fcdslusb2-3.11.07/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fcdslusb-3.11.07/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fcdslusba-3.11.05/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fcpci-3.11.07/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fcusb2-3.11.07/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fcusb-3.11.04/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fxusb-3.11.06/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 fxusb_CZ-3.11.06/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:15 hcfpcimodem-1.06full/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 hsfmodem-7.18.00.05full/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 Jul  9 18:25 linux -> linux-2.6.16-1mdk/
drwxr-xr-x  22 root root  880 Jul  9 18:25 linux-2.6.16-1mdk/
drwxr-xr-x  22 root root  776 Jul  6 02:35 linux-2.6.16-1mdk_RENAMED/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:16 madwifi-0.20050829/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 1312 Jul  6 02:34 nvidia-8762.2.mdk2006.0.mde/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   72 Jul  1 15:33 rpm/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   72 May 11 10:08 RPM/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:17 slmodem-2.9.10/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:17 unicorn-0.9.2/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   80 May 11 10:17 unionfs-1.1.1.1.20060117.1mdk/

[ianw1974]

Looks OK to me. How are you trying to install the nvidia drivers? Using sources through urpmi, or did you download the driver direct from Nvidia?

[dexter11]

This is what it said:

 

[dee@DeePC2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux DeePC2 2.6.16-1mdksmp #1 SMP Tue May 23 01:02:05 WEST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ unknown GNU/Linux

So it's a cooker system?

 

 

[dee@DeePC2 ~]$ ls -l /usr/src

total 3

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 May 11 10:15 ati-8.23.7/

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 864 Jul 1 15:47 ati-8.25.18.2.mdk2006.0.mde/

 

[/code]

If you have an nvidia card why do you have ati drivers installed? Maybe they are conflicting with the nvidia driver. Since ATI driver is using dri it seems likely to me.

Remove ATi driver first (if it's for the video card and not for the MoBo chipset).

Edited July 10, 2006 by dexter11

[scarecrow]

Yes its a Cooker system indeed (or rather, to make things worse, it looks like a mixture of Cooker and 2006 with third party repos like MDE...), and the Nvidia or ATi proprietary drivers do NOT work with xorg 7.1, no matter what you try- sorry... maybe later, when these companies issue 7.1 compatible drivers.

Edited July 10, 2006 by scarecrow

[tyme]

They do work to some extent with 7.1. See my thread here.

[flarefox]

Looks OK to me. How are you trying to install the nvidia drivers? Using sources through urpmi, or did you download the driver direct from Nvidia?

 

Sort-of both at the moment. In the past, at some times I had to have dkms install the card but that would not install everything, so I had to use the nvidia package to get everything working. So now dkms is installed by default, but the mde kerlen I use has something that keeps dkms from even being able to compile anything, so I compile all the drivers myself.

 

Cooker, mde, and custom compile. Always been able to get stuff to work in the past...albeit after I asked someone what the errors meant most of the time. The ATI drivers were installed by default after I tried out the kiosk driver update thing. It installed a bunch of extra drivers that I didn't need. I'm still going through and picking out the ones I don't need from the ones I do. Also, dkms doesn't even work with my kernel very well anyway. I use an NForce4 motherboard.

 

 

This is what it said:

 

[dee@DeePC2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux DeePC2 2.6.16-1mdksmp #1 SMP Tue May 23 01:02:05 WEST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ unknown GNU/Linux

So it's a cooker system?

 

 

[dee@DeePC2 ~]$ ls -l /usr/src

total 3

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 May 11 10:15 ati-8.23.7/

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 864 Jul 1 15:47 ati-8.25.18.2.mdk2006.0.mde/

 

[/code]

If you have an nvidia card why do you hav

 

e ati drivers installed? Maybe they are conflicting with the nvidia driver. Since ATI driver is using dri it seems likely to me.

Remove ATi driver first (if it's for the video card and not for the MoBo chipset).

 

 

Yes its a Cooker system indeed (or rather, to make things worse, it looks like a mixture of Cooker and 2006 with third party repos like MDE...), and the Nvidia or ATi proprietary drivers do NOT work with xorg 7.1, no matter what you try- sorry... maybe later, when these companies issue 7.1 compatible drivers.

 

I would say that's what it is, but I'm using xorg 6.9, yet it still doesn't work. Render acceleration and everything is loading, but the xfree library I need never loads and I can't see why. How do I force it to load the correct library or link it myself?

 

Yes its a Cooker system indeed (or rather, to make things worse, it looks like a mixture of Cooker and 2006 with third party repos like MDE...), and the Nvidia or ATi proprietary drivers do NOT work with xorg 7.1, no matter what you try- sorry... maybe later, when these companies issue 7.1 compatible drivers.

 

That's exactly what is happening! What can I do to get them working? I'd be willing to go back to an earlier xorg if I had to. I'm a 3d artist and being cut off from my 3d apps is killing me. I can't get windows working because some of the windows drivers don't work on 64 bit machines at all. Even in 32 bit mode, so I'm stuck. :( Is it the best to just wait for the newest version of the driver to come out in the unknown future or try to downgrade xorg?