Installing nVidia for AMD64/EM64T cards

[Rick Stevens]

Michael Velez wrote:
> Rick,
> 
> I have checked the nvidia README file, which gave me leads on AGP and 
> searches for different monitors (which is the stuff I put in my last 
> e-mail, at the bottom).  I tried all that.  It didn't work.  I got rid 
> of the EDID warnings by putting an option to ignore.  I do properly load 
> "glx" and not "dri" nor"GLcore" as in the docs.  I've added the details 
> in the config file for my monitor.
> 
> The keyboard errors do occur when VESA is used and X starts properly.

Ok, I was just curious.  Must be a mapping issue...not critical.

> The logfile looks good.  I even tried it with the verbose option of 
> startx. The graphics card is found.  There is a line specifying the card 
> type NVS 280.  There is no error associated with the Nvidia card 
> whatsoever.
> 
> The only thing I found was a:
> NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xC0000000, 256M (write-combining).
> 
> sent to standard OUTPUT (not log file) while in verbose mode.  I'll have 
> to do some research on this.

That could be it.  The MTRR is the memory management register on most
CPUs.  It could be that the Nvidia driver has issues with the 64 bit
address space.  That message looks familiar, however, and I'm not sure
it's not common.

> At this point, I've tried everything I have found in the nvidia doc and 
> in internet forums.  I'll look some more.  If I don't find anything, 
> I'll have to contact nvidia.
> 
> Who knows?  Maybe if I correct the keyboard issues, X will work (even 
> though the VESA driver has no problem with the errors being there).

I don't think the keyboard is a problem.  I do have a question...if you
fire up in run-level 3 and run "xinit", does it come up?  If not (if you
just get a blank screen), try hoding down CTRL and ALT, then hit F12.
That should kick you out of the X display.  Then "ALT-F1" should get
you a console login screen.  Log in and see if there's anything weird
in the X log at that point.

It may be simply that it's freaking out your monitor.  In that case, try
changing the line:

	Modes	"800x600" "640x480"

to

	Modes	"640x480"

in your config file (in other words, force VGA mode) and try again.  If
that works, you've got problems in your monitor description.  It's just
a guess.
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