New graphic card won't work

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Tim77 · Post by **Tim77** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:16 pm

Hello everybody,

I replaced my nvidia TNT2 card with a Geforce 5700 LE. Unfortunately X won't start correctly. I assumed that I could use my old XF86config since both should use "nvidia" as a driver. But now my pc boots fine, but when I startx the nvidia logo appears and after that the screen gets very ugly. As if a thousand ants run across the screen with very high tempo... (don't know how to describe it more detailed...).

This are some parts of my XF86config:

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# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of monitor sections may be present

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "CTX-VL950"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    HorizSync   30-95

#    HorizSync	30-64         # multisync
#    HorizSync	31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
#    HorizSync	15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    VertRefresh 50-160

vendorname "[CTX-VL950]"
modelname "[CTX-VL950]"
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

# Standard VGA Device:

Section "Device"
    Identifier	"Standard VGA"
    VendorName	"Unknown"
    BoardName	"Unknown"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases.  It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.

#    Chipset	"generic"

# The Driver line must be present.  When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module.  Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.


    Driver     "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for.  When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device.  For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used.  This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.

#    BusID      "PCI:0:10:0"

#    VideoRam	256

#    Clocks	25.2 28.3

EndSection

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section "Device"
#    Identifier  "Diamond-Viper770-Ultra"
#    Driver      "nvidia"
#    #VideoRam    32768
#    #Option "RenderAccel" "False"
#     Option "NoLogo" "1"
    
    Identifier  "Geforce-FX5700"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    #VideoRam    131072
    #Option "RenderAccel" "False"
    #Option "NoLogo" "1"

# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
vendorname ""
boardname ""
EndSection

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# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present.  Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen.  A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "Geforce-FX5700"
    Monitor     "CTX-VL950"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "NvAgp" "0" # disable AGP-Support
    # Option "NvAgp" "1" # use NVAGP
    # Option "NvAgp" "2" # use AGPGART

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
        ViewPort    0 0
	Virtual 0 0
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
        ViewPort    0 0
	Virtual 0 0
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
        ViewPort    0 0
	Virtual 0 0
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
	Depth	    32
	Modes	    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	ViewPort    0 0
	Virtual	    0 0
    EndSubsection

EndSection

I reemerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx with no effect. Is there something in the kernel I have to activate for a Geforce card?

Plastic · Post by **Plastic** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:20 pm

No, there is no reason for it not to work. I see you have not specified videoram. Does X quit, or just hang in its ugly state?

Tim77 · Post by **Tim77** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:31 pm

If I uncomment the ram section there is no difference. BTW: I didn't make a RAM size statement for my TNT2 card either.

I also tried to disable GLX with no luck. It stays in it's ugly state. I can even move the mouse and see that there is something moving.

In the first few seconds I am able to switch to another Terminal, so that I can play around with the XF86config file.

Tim77 · Post by **Tim77** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:55 pm

Next shot missed also: Driver "nv" doesn't make any difference...

Dr Evil · Post by **Dr Evil** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:40 pm

I just dealt with a very very similar situation.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=189419

I have no doubt just upgrading the drivers would have solved my problem, but as noted, I had other issues so I just bulldozed my / partition (which has everything but /boot and /home on it).

Hope it helps some.