NVdriver Issues

delta407 · Guest

I have installed nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, updated my X config file, and done various things to get NVdriver working properly. Well, my screen flickers for a while, then X gives up and complains:

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:02 am Post subject:

Have you tried the Gentoo NVidia troubleshooting guide?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/nvidia_tsg.html

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Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:08 am Post subject:

Yep; no go. It's not an AGP issue, nor is it an X issue (I'm typing this in Konqueror on the troubled box) -- it's an issue within the kernel driver.

Wait a minute, I just remembered that I can ask Google. Silly me

We'll see what happens.

delta407 · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:23 am Post subject:

Google says that that particular error message in the kernel module is produced in the driver entry point when it's asked to open the card. The error code (0xFFFFFFF0) is an ISR status code; anyone know a good reference document?

Anyway, the surrounding source shows that it's not an interrupt sharing issue, so... is it just a bad interaction with my chipset, or did I misconfigure something? (And what could I misconfigure to make it blow up like this?)

dArkMaGE · Apprentice Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 152

youll probably want to check the nvidia.com website
not only do they have a readme file with some troubleshooting help they also have a link to an nvidia/linux forum with a bunch of other stuff about nvidia difficulties.

delta407 · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:36 am Post subject:

I've read through the readme file and I've run the search engine through their forum.

No luck.

lude · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 7:08 am Post subject: Re: NVdriver Issues

delta407 · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 2:00 am Post subject:

Well, I disabled SMP support, and recompiled my kernel. The compilation failed (make bzImage after dep and clean) -- so I figured I would try the sys-kernel/gentoo-sources tree. Thirty megs later, it had some issues as well -- namely, refusing to make VMware run. I need VMware (I did shell out lots of $$$ for it), so I try sys-kernel/vanilla-sources. Great, vanilla-sources hasn't made it into the Portage tree yet.

So, now I finally have a stable kernel; I used sys-kernel/xfs-sources, even though I'm not running XFS, simply because nothing else wanted to work. When I fired up X, I got some obscure error involving IRQs, even though /proc/interrupts didn't show anything abnormal... hmm...

So, anyway, long story shortened: X is now using my accelerated video card. How? I bought an ATi. In four hours of head scratching, keyboard banging, disk thrashing, and line saturating, I have once again learned Gentoo's greatest weakness: poorly tested packages. I don't want to fight to make my desktop work.

In any case, the moral of the story is: always stick with a released, stable kernel, and use ATi instead.

Malakin · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 3:13 am Post subject:

As of writing this there is a vanilla-sources available, although I was looking at that stuff last night (or maybe two nights ago) and didn't notice it so it must of just made it in there.

When I first read your message I didn't know what you were talking about until I started reading over the heads of the linux-source ebuilds and saw the message about the change in kernel sources. Guess you hit them just as they were transitioning.

The nv video driver is fast for 2d stuff, it just doesn't support 3d so you may of been able to use that.

I tried looking up your nvidia error to see what I could find, not much out there so it sound like an obscure problem. Only things I would of suggested would be making sure you had the latest bios on your motherboard, and other bios settings were correct like irq to vga.

It's good to hear everything's working with the ati card though :)

Vlad · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 4:46 pm Post subject: Problem Solved!

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