Guest oberon Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 Hello everybody! I am having a problem - my ML9.1 hangs unexpectedly - and there is a suspicion that this is because of my NVIDIA card's driver. Reading this forum I figured out that I should install NVIDIA driver myself. However, when X starts, I see the splash screen of NVIDIA, and my card is properly detected during the installation. Does this still mean that I need to install the new driver? Also, I just found that my card was detected as GeForce2 DDR, while in fact it is GeForce2 GTS. Is it a different thing? Could this create a problem? I tried to set it as just GeForce, relogged, and it works OK, so I'll wait and see if there will be a hang again... And still, do I need to install the new driver? The process of installation as it described sounds difficult for me. ... It hanged with 'GeForce' also. Now I am trying what was advised somewhere else in the case of a problem like mine: I set my videocard as just 'vesa'. The image lost that 'glamour' which it had previously. Also the screen resolution became lower, probably 1024 x 768 instead of the normal 1152 x 864 (although the system says that it makes my normal resolution). Nasty thing... Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 There is a good tutorial to install the Nvidia drivers here. As far as I know this is a universal driver for all geforce cards on Linux. It would help if you could post your XF86Config file. (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oberon Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 Thank you! Yes, this tutorial is excellent. I was very impatient, so just went forward with the driver installation according to this tutorial and other advices I found here on this forum. Everything went very easily, and now I am waiting if my system will hang again or not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oberon Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 No, it hanged again. But the problem is most probably in the video card. Now I again set the video card driver as 'vesa' and it works, although only in 1024 x 768 resolution... What can be the reason, why my videocard works fine under RedHat and creates a problem under Mandrake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 I have a gf2gts. There is no problem with mandrake identifying it properly, and the nvidia drivers will identify it properly. You may have done an edit that is still sticking. Completely uninstall the nvidia, set it to the default mandrake, and install nvidia again. Also, make sure your vid card irq is not shared with any other devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 .....and post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oberon Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 Eeeeh... Could you please give me more details about these things: 1. Completely uninstall the nvidia 2. Make sure your vid card irq is not shared with any other devices Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oberon Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 This is what I have now. Before everything was according to the directions re: driver installation. 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 EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru(winkeys)" Option "XkbCompat" "default+group_led" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Plug'n Play" ModelName "Iiyama MA901U, VisionMaster Pro 452" HorizSync 30.0-96.0 VertRefresh 50.0-180.0 # 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 # 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" Driver "vesa" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 If your driver is "vesa", you are not using the nvidia driver. That line must say "nvidia". Try that before we go on to more fun stuff! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oberon Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 I reinstalled the new driver again, but now I can hang at any moment Now the appropriate pieces look like this: Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "glx" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" EndSection It was so stupidly safe with vesa! :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oberon Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 Also I tried glxgears. It is still running and producing the output like this: 6424 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1284.800 FPS 7155 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1431.000 FPS 7227 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1445.400 FPS 7221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1444.200 FPS 7223 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1444.600 FPS 7216 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1443.200 FPS 7224 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1444.800 FPS 7224 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1444.800 FPS 7227 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1445.400 FPS 7212 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1442.400 FPS 7227 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1445.400 FPS ... and so forth. Will it ever stop? :x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 Your glx is loading twice, which could be a problem. As root, edit your file by putting a # in front of the last glx line. (the one that starts with /usr/...) Your XF85Config-4 will be similar to mine, which works good enough for RTCW, QuakeII, and QuakeIII. Another thought: list the contents of the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oberon Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 This line /usr... appeared after the last installation. And I added Load "glx" manually. After the previous installation of the same driver there was already the Load "glx", but there was no that long line. And anyway, it hanged after less than an hour of work. Everything works fine, but then everything hangs. At the same time when I set 'vesa', there were no hangs yet. And there were no hangs in Red Hat... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sud_crow Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Hey there... just question. what drivers are you using?? the ones i got are this: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oberon Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Yes, this is exactly the driver which I installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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