Display woes

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/2/06, Ben Lancaster <lists at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
> >> # init 5
> >> # tail /var/log/messages
> >> Jun  2 23:56:46 benlancaster init: Switching to runlevel: 5
> >> Jun  2 23:56:47 benlancaster kernel: NVRM: not using NVAGP, kernel
> >> was compiled with GART_IOMMU support!!
> >
> > That isn't an X failure, its an AGP driver failure, but shouldn't be
> > fatal to starting X.  Is X running?
>
> Immediately after the switch to init 5, the nvidia logo appears for a
> second, then the GART_IOMMU appears in my messages log. Xorg runs OK,
> but is not using the nvidia drivers (no XvMC for mpeg2 content, poor
> OpenGL performance for example).
>
> > What does your X log look like?
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log is clean, the only nVidia reference is on boot:
>
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event
> Handler" (type: Other)
>
> ...and that's it.
>
> Weird one, huh?

Again, what does your X log look like?  Even better would be to
generate a full nvidia-bug-report.log and post it in a new thread on
nvnews.net.

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