[clug] nVidia help

[Basil Chupin]

Paul Matthews wrote:
> I have upgraded Mandrake 9.1 to 9.2 and I'm having trouble
> with the nVidia driver. The screen goes blank, the monitor
> clicks, and then it's all over.
> 
> The install:
> 
>   sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
> 
> ran to completion without problems. The XFFree86.log shows
> everything appears to be working fine:
> 
>   (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>   (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
>   (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>           compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.5336
>           Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
>   ...cut...
>   (II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver  1.0-5336  Wed Jan 14 18:30:46 PST 2004
>   (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
>   (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
>   (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
>   (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
>   ...cut...
>   (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
>   (II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
>   (II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
>   (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
>   (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>           compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0
>           ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
>   (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
>   (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
>   (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
>   (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
>   (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000
>   (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xD6000000
> 
> there seems to be no trouble loading the kernel modules:
> 
>   # lsmod | grep nvidia
>   nvidia               2126440   0  (unused)
> 
> the nvidia device file appear to be there:
> 
>   # ls -l /dev/nvidia*
>   crw-------    1 plm      root     195,   0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/nvidia0
>   crw-------    1 plm      root     195, 255 Jan  1  1970 /dev/nvidiactl
> 
> Any good ideas?

Which video card are you using?

Which brand of CPU are you using (Intel or Athlon)?

I run SUSE with Athlon XP CPU and until I changed to a FX5200 card 
recently I (and many others) could not use the nVidia drivers subsequent 
to the $4336 if I/we were using the MX400/440 flavour cards. People with 
the Intel CPU appear/ed to be immune to any problems.

Cheers.


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