F7 nvidia-96xx driver problem

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/24/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 20:42, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 7/24/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 24 July 2007 16:12, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > > On 7/24/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
> > > > > Having an oldish GeForce 4 type video card, I tried to get 3D
> > > > > acceleration, so (after some inquiry on the nVidia website) I did
> > > > > # yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx
> > > > > Yum took the package from Livna, took the appropriate xorg-x11-driver
> > > > > file, installed them both successfully. I verified the xorg.conf file
> > > > > that was modified in the process, and it looks perfectly sane to me.
> > > > > But, after startx all I get is a blank dark screen, and all I can do
> > > > > is to press the reset button.
> > > >
> > > > X is hanging.  See:
> > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498
> > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678
> > >
> > > Thanks for the pointers! :-)
> > >
> > > So, I managed to make the nvidia-bug-report.log (it is attached).
> > > After the reboot I found the log file there. I'll also try to post it on
> > > the nVidia forums (where exactly?) and see what happens.
> > >
> > > So what now? Can you tell why is X hanging based on the log?
> >
> > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 1, 0x8000, 0x000003d4, 0x00000474)
> > (II) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA X driver has encountered an error; attempting to
> > (II) NVIDIA(0):     recover...
> >
> > Have you verified that you're using the latest motherboard BIOS?
>
> Well, no... I am still using the BIOS that came with the board, didn't have
> the need to upgrade it. With FC4 the nVidia driver did work. I will check on
> this, though.
>
> > Does setting NvAGP to 0 in xorg.conf help?
>
> I assume it should be put in as
> Option "NvAGP" "0"
> in the "Device" section? I did so, and it did not help. Though, the log file
> now looks somewhat different. It says somewhere that AGP is switched off by
> request, but the simptoms are still the same.
>
> Any other sugestions?

(II) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device enabled on this X screen; not
(II) NVIDIA(0):     allocating video overlay

Does disabling the Composite extension help?
Are you able to reduce the AGP rate in the BIOS?