Installing nVidia for AMD64/EM64T cards

[Michael Velez]

Rick,

Thanks for your reply.  To make things more readable, I put my comments in bold green below.

Michael
 
---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Installing nVidia for AMD64/EM64T cards


> Michael Velez wrote:
>> Hello all,
> 
> Hi, yourself!
> 
>> I just installed RHEL 3 WS on a Dell Precision 370n Workstation with 
>> EM64T architecture.
> 
> Okey doke.  Never used that particular combo, but OK.

> Yikes! This is scary.  I just started a business on my own at home and am in the research phase now where I need the Linux box.  Why is this particular combination not a good one?  I was working for a bank for a while and left IT a long time ago and am only coming back now.

>> I am now trying to install an nvidia NVS800 graphics card using the 
>> Linux drivers nvidia offers on their download page.
>> 
>> I have updated my XF86Config file with driver nvidia and have verified 
>> the appropriate modules are being loaded.
>> 
>> However, X hangs when I try to start by initing to Level 5.
> 
> Uh, what's the last thing in the /var/log/XFree86.log file?

> I have attached the log file to this e-mail.  There were some keyboard errors at the end; however, I'm assuming that has nothing to do with the graphics card.  And the same X setup functioned with VESA driver

>> Does anybody know what’s going on?  This is my first Linux distro after 
>> being on the business side of things.  The last time I administered a 
>> UNIX box was over 10 years ago.
>> 
>> I would appreciate any help you could offer.
>> 
>> I started looking at the Xconfig file and log.  The Xconfig file is 
>> loading ‘fbdevhw’.  Is that the same as rivafb, which I’m told should 
>> not be loaded when the nvidia driver is used.
> 
> No, the "fbdevhw" is the hardware frame buffer.  It's fairly generic.
> I don't think it conflicts with the nvidia driver.  Understand that
> anything I suggest is also generic as I generally use ATI cards myself
> (although _this_ machine has an old Nvidia RIVA TNT2 in it).

> Thx

>> The Xconfig log said there was a failure reading EDID parameters for 
>> display device CRT-0.  Is that a problem?
> 
> It could be.  If the message is prefixed by "(EE)", yes it's an error
> and could be fatal.  If it has "(WW)", it's a warning and shouldn't
> be fatal.  The meaning of these flags is in the top of the log file,
> prefixed by the word "Markers:".

> Thx.  The EDID issue is just a warning (WW), although above mentioned keyboard issues are (EE)

> If you look through the log file, can you see the spot where it says
> that the "nvidia" driver is loaded?  Just after that, you should see
> something to the effect:
> "(--) Chipset (name-of-your-chipset) found"
> 
> This simply verifies that your video card was indeed found.  I'm just
> trying to make sure that the driver you have is compatible with your
> board (sometimes they aren't).

> After the (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" line, I have the following line:
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found

However, before the load module nvidia line, I found this:
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:

(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x00fd) rev 162, Mem @ 0xdd000000/24, 0xc0000000/28, 0xde000000/24, BIOS @ 0xdfe00000/17I 

I do not call nvidia anywhere else in the config file and have attached it as well.

Thanks for the help,
Michael


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