2.4.20-r1 and nvidia driver

brian33x51 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 118

I just (attempted) to upgrade to 2.4.20-r1. (1.4 install with ~x86 keywords)

I have a dual athlon (1700+) with a tyan tiger MP motherboard and a gf4 ti 4200.

After upgrading my kernel and rebuilding the nvidia module, X now refuses to start.
It doesn't crash, but on startup the nvidia logo never flashes and the screen stays black.

I end up having to reboot the system to recover the video.

So now I'm back on 2.4.19

I have the agpgart compiled as a module and the card/board has AGP fast writes and SBA enabled.

li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

have a look at /usr/src/linux/.config
and see if u got everythin right

or why dont u save the old config and load it to the new kernel

drakonite · l33t Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Lincoln, NE

Did you reinstall the nvidia-kernel after you upgraded your kernel? You have to do that.

sgaap · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:45 pm Post subject:

Did you rebuild your nvidia kernel driver with 2.4.20 linked to /usr/src/linux in stead of 2.4.19?

I just upgraded to 2.4.20-r1 fiorm 2.4.19 and after rebuilding my nvidia kernel driver (3123 because 4191 sucks) against the 2.4.20-r1 kernel (gentoo-sources) everything worked

bpkri · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject:

I had general problem when upgradeing from the 3xxx nvidia driver to the 4xxx nvidia driver - after an emerge -u nvidia-kernel X always crashed saying it cannot load or initialize (cannot remember correctly) the nvidia module. emerging the driver again helped, though.

helper2384 · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 4

the 4xxx nvidia driver uses nvidia as kernelmodule

the old kernelmodule was NVdriver

after i changed that in modules.autoload
(because on demand loading dont work for me)
everything is fine again.

i have a gf4 4200ti w 64mb

and using ~x86 unstable branch

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

brian33x51 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 118

When I first upgraded the kernel I tried several times, even built the nvidia kernel source by hand.

Anyways, I'm using the 4.xxx nvidia driver just fine on 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 right at this moment.
Are any of you guys running a duallie athlon setup or a Sis 735 based board??

I'll go through it all again, the building and everything.
I probably could fall back to the 3123 driver if I needed to. That's the only way I could get another machine to work properly.

MadEagle · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 10:13 am Post subject:

I had a similar problem after upgrading to 2.4.20-r1. When starting X it would just display funny blinking charqacters and crash (the 3xxx driver). Even recompiling didn't help. I solved it by disabling APIC in the kernel.

MadEagle

darktux · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 11:00 am Post subject:

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

2.4.20 seems a very nice kernel to me! runs slightly better(more responsive) than the old one. The Nvidia divers work too here (on a TNT2 card !?!).

Maybe rebooting after you installed then helps.... (Not very linuxy)
Otherwise do: (some have been mentioned already)
(Assuming you are already booting from the new kernel:)
(have you linked /usr/src/linux to your new gentoo sources?)

emerge nvidia-kernel
env-update
source /etc/profile
update-modules
modprobe nvidia (the driver module has a new name)
startx

This should definitely work!
Next time you reboot the module should be loaded automagically.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Multimedia.
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