F7 nvidia-96xx driver problem

[Marko Vojinovic]

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?

Thanks for help! :-)
Marko

Marko Vojinovic
Institute of Physics
University of Belgrade
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e-mail: vmarko at phy.bg.ac.yu

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