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vputz
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 Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: Nvidia MX440, drivers 1.0.8776 no-work! [solved, non-Gentoo] |
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Nvidia hates me.
Okay, I have an old MX440 card in my freevo box; today I decided to upgrade to 2.6.18 (old kernel was quite a bit older).
Well, thought I, I'll upgrade the drivers. But the new drivers complained, saying that I should use the legacy drivers.
I emerged nvidia-legacy-drivers, modprobed nvidia, and POOF, my TV output went away (composite, even the text and boot screen).
Awkward moment, since there's no monitor connected to that computer, just the TV. And it's our ONLY TV.
Anyway, I'd like to get that back up. I saw a post saying that the regular nvidia-drivers 1.0.8776 worked fine with MX440s (and I'd been using nvidia-drivers for a long time). I emerged it and modprobed: no problem!
| Code: | NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:04 PDT 2006
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Yay!
Well, not so much; composite is still blank, but hey, it's a start. Blindly, I log in and start up X... silence and darkness. I check dmesg via net:
| Code: | NVRM: failed to copy vbios to system memory.
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffffffff:885)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
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Much sadness ensues! Any ideas on this one? I'm completely baffled. Some posts say that the video card must have a unique IRQ, but it never has and it worked fine before. Looking at /proc/interrupts shows me this:
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17: 124 IO-APIC-level ohci_hcd:usb2, NVidia nForce2
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I'm baffled. No tv, no MAME, nuffin'. Snif...
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vputz
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Even stranger--now the system boots and I can access it via ethernet... but connecting a monitor to the DVI outputs (either one) of my video card makes it look like it's not producing ANY signal--even just the power-on screen, much less Linux or X!
But the driver still loads, and I can query card drivers with nvtv, etc. What the devil!? Did modprobing nvidia-legacy-drivers fry my video card!? |
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vputz
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: |
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Er... heh... um...
Pulled out the video card to discover that, simultaneous with my upgrade, the heatsink had popped off the chip and was thus not cooling it at all. I squished it back into place and secured it with a zip-tie and it works fine.
Sheesh; several hours down the drain for no reason. Reminds me of the time I reflashed my router at the same time as a cable line broke elsewhere in the neighborhood; lost about three days trying to figure out what I'd done to my router... |
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