I need to try to found a pattern somewher. Until now it appears that:
- drivers 4363 works for a lot of people. - drivers 4496 fails for several people (they work for me).
Fact is I had many problems with previous versions of the nvidia driver that I'm scared to death to try any newer version. That's why I'm not eager to upgrade and I'm still using 4363 (and I'm reluctant to upgrade kernels for the same reason)
Can people please mail me the output of lspcidrake -v and telling me what versions work/don't work for you?
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:1106 device:0305)
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:1106 device:8305)
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super] [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:1106 device:0686 subv:1106 subd:0000)
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] [STORAGE_IDE] (vendor:1106 device:0571)
usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1106 device:3038 subv:0925 subd:1234)
usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1106 device:3038 subv:0925 subd:1234)
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] [BRIDGE_OTHER] (vendor:1106 device:3057)
snd-via82xx : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1106 device:3058 subv:1106 subd:4511)
tulip : Davicom|Ethernet 100/10 MBit DM9102 [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:1282 device:9102 subv:3030 subd:5032)
ohci1394 : VIA Technologies|OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller [SERIAL_FIREWIRE] (vendor:1106 device:3044)
bttv : Brooktree Corporation|Bt878 [MULTIMEDIA_VIDEO] (vendor:109e device:036e subv:153b subd:1118)
btaudio : Brooktree Corporation|Bt878 [MULTIMEDIA_OTHER] (vendor:109e device:0878 subv:153b subd:1118)
8139too : Realtek|RTL-8139 [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8139)
Card:NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic): nVidia Corporation|NV11 Geforce2 MX/MX 400 [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10de device:0110 subv:107d subd:2830)
unknown : Unknown|USB UHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
unknown : Unknown|USB UHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
4363 works (with kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk), previos versions didn't work and later ones I didn't try.
I have found that machines fail with PIII, PIV and athlons, both with NVidia IGP and normal cards.
Athlon here:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) processor
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 851.966
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 1697.38
Only pattern found until now are that the following cards fail:
- GForce MX - Gforce2 MX
That's the one I have: $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 Model: GeForce2 MX/MX 400 IRQ: 5 Video BIOS: 03.11.00.18.00 Card Type: AGP
BTW, with AGP disabled
- IGP (Gforce4 MX) - standalone GForce4 MX
At least the: - GForce3 Ti500 work (guess what is the card that I have)
Current theory is that:
New driver with cards older than GForce3 fail. GForce4 MX if I remember correctly is just a GForce2 core "on steroids".
Later, Juan "learning too much about NVidia graphics cards".
Well, they put the "tainted" thing for a reason :-(
Bye
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