The "beauty?" of the nvidia drivers in action

[Tarjei Knapstad]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 08:39, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:26 -0700, Aaron Kurtz wrote:
> 
> > The last time I got this, I updated my kernel and then booted into that
> > kernel without going to runlevel 3 first and installing the kernel
> > module using the -K option (-A has it and the other advanced options).
> > Did you upgrade your kernel and not rebuild the drivers?
> 
> This is the first kernel that I have even bothered testing with the
> Nvidia drivers(2.6.11-1.1225_FC4).  What would u suggest I try to get
> the module to work(if u r running this kernel)?
> 

I had similar trouble getting a FX5700 card up and running on FC3. What
did the trick was to put:

        Option      "NvAGP" "0"

in the "Device" section (this disables AGP which seems to be the
problem). I'm not sure what would be a better/more permanent solution to
the problem though - not sure how much (or even if) this affects 3D
performance. From the NVidia README:

Option "NvAGP" "integer"
    Configure AGP support. Integer argument can be one of:
    0 : disable agp
    1 : use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible
    2 : use AGPGART, if possible
    3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP)
        Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot
        work if AGPGART is either statically compiled into your
        kernel or is built as a module, but loaded into your
        kernel (some distributions load AGPGART into the kernel
        at boot up).  Default: 3 (the default was 1 until after
        1.0-1251).

Hope this helps,
--
Tarjei