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Techie2000
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 Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject: Looking for an XF86Config file that works with GeForce 3... |
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| Ti200, the xf86config program isn't doing a good job so I have to roll my own, but need some guidance... |
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leej
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for an XF86Config file that works with GeForce 3 |
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| Techie2000 wrote: | | Ti200, the xf86config program isn't doing a good job so I have to roll my own, but need some guidance... |
Are you using XFree's nv driver or NVidias own kernel & glx drivers? |
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Sesquipedalian
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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have you tried 'XFree86 -configure' ?
Works great for my GF2 Ultra. It spits out a pretty good config file. I just have to tweak my mouse settings and set DefaultDepth and some Modes.
after installing Nvidia drivers, just comment out the dri module and change the driver from "nv" to "nvidia" |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Using the method in the install files and editing my config file I finally got X working, but it goes off the screen. I'll try that method and see what happens. |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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XFree86 -Configure generated a much better file. However some stuff still happened. My Logitech USB Optical Wheel Mouse does not work. I also get the following error (yes it shows up twice on the screen).
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved
And here is part of my mouse section
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay mouse is fixed. Still getting dri errors, unless I comment out the dri module (what does it do and do I need it). When I startx the nvidia logo doesn't pop-up like it is supposed to acording to. I followed the instructions and ran the opengl nvidia update. |
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leej
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Techie2000 wrote: | | Okay mouse is fixed. Still getting dri errors, unless I comment out the dri module (what does it do and do I need it). When I startx the nvidia logo doesn't pop-up like it is supposed to acording to. I followed the instructions and ran the opengl nvidia update. |
You should not load the dri module with the NVidia drivers. It says this in the readme file. You still get Direct Rendering and GL acceleration courtesy of NVidia's own glx driver. Do read it because it has a lot of important things to say about your XF86Config including extra options users of other display cards aren't lucky enough to get. You might even find you're better off using NVidia's own AGPGart (instead of XFree's) depending on your Motherboard.
As for the logo, do you definitely have Driver "nvidia" (correct) and not Driver "nv" (incorrect)? Did you merge both nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx?
For the nvidia glx README (referred to above) do a....
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less /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-1.0.2960-r1/README.gz
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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ah thanks. I'll take a look at the readme and probably fix my problems  . |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| okay made sure everything was emerged, and set up correctly using the readme. Still no logo. I have glx set to load in the modules section, and NVdriver in modules.autoload |
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leej
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Techie2000 wrote: | | okay made sure everything was emerged, and set up correctly using the readme. Still no logo. I have glx set to load in the modules section, and NVdriver in modules.autoload |
and Driver "nvidia" (not nv) in XF86Config?
Here's my device section (for a GEForce2 MX400):
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Section "Device"
Identifier "SiluroT400"
Driver "nvidia"
VideoRam 65536
Option "NvAGP" "1" # 1 = NVidia AGP
# 2 = AGPGart
# 3 = any (AGPGart tried first)
#Option "CursorShadow" "true"
#Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "60"
#Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "2"
#Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "2"
#Option "NoLogo" "false"
#
#Option "DigitalVibrance" "4"
EndSection
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I don't know whether that helps any. There's a bit of NVidia specific stuff commented out there. The NVidia specific AGP (option 1) is unlikely to work if AGPGART is compiled into your kernel (they'll conflict). You really should get a logo, unless you uncomment NoLogo and change it to true. |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| yup looks similar to yours, just some layout differences... |
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leej
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Techie2000 wrote: | | yup looks similar to yours, just some layout differences... |
Weird how you don't get the splash screen. If you type glxinfo in a console, does it tell you whether direct rendering is enabled? Also - can you see whether it mentions the NVidia driver (with no errors) in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? 
You should certainly get the following if it is using NVIDIA's own glx driver:
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(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.2960
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
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Also, what about:
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dmesg | grep nvidia
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Does that report the correct driver version? |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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glxinfo gives:
Error: unable to open display (null)
the two other things do what is expected. |
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leej
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Techie2000 wrote: | glxinfo gives:
Error: unable to open display (null) |
Are you doing this as root or as a normal user? And if you do a Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X you're definitely not getting the NVidia splash? |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm doing this as root, although I do it without X started. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does not bring a NVIDIA logo. It takes what I would think an unusually long time to go from startx to having twm running... |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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When I have twm started and do glxinfo it says
failed to find rgb glx visual
This is very strange I think. Well tonight I plan I on re emerging KDE to get 2.0 so I'll just unmerge XFree86 and NVIDIA and see what happens... |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Got it working. I noticed my XF86Config didn't have a display modes section. How stupid of me. Well that was fixed. And I emerged KDE 3.0.2 thanks to dek's instructions. The only question I got left is how do I unmerge KDE 3.0.1? Can I just do an emerge clean? |
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leej
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| Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Techie2000 wrote: | | Got it working. I noticed my XF86Config didn't have a display modes section. How stupid of me. Well that was fixed. |
Well, I've been there and done that. 
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And I emerged KDE 3.0.2 thanks to dek's instructions. The only question I got left is how do I unmerge KDE 3.0.1? Can I just do an emerge clean? |
That's right. Or emerge -p clean if you don't want to unmerge all superceded packages then pick from the list what you'd like to unmerge and do it manually. |
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Techie2000
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| Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay thanks . I did emerge clean and it seems good. KDE is so frickin fast, its better than any KDE I ever used . |
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Mandr4ke
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| Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2002 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Also once you load the Nvidia Drivers and go throguh the Video card list, the Geforce 3 is in the list as #322 or something like that.. select that then edit the XF86Config file manually and change "nv" to "nvidia" and also game sure to uncomment Load "glx" hope this helps.. |
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