In my efforts to track down a hardware problem that is causing system lockups I was
changing out components with those from a well running system.
One such component was the vid card.
I removed the GeForce3 from this system and replaced it with a Radeon and ran XFdrake
and the proper change were made to /etc/XF86Config-4.
When I found that the lockups still occurred I re-installed the GeForce3
to this system again ran XFdrake.
Problem!
NO CHANGES were made to /etc/XF86Config-4, it was still set up for the Radeon.
I changed the driver option to nv but let all other settings the same.
To verify I reran XFdrake Show settings.
' XFree 4.2.0
Keyboard layout: us
Mouse type: IMPS/2
Monitor: Hitachi CM751
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)
Graphic memory: 65536 kB
XFree86 server: SVGA
XFree86 driver: nv'
Having changed only the driver to nv and # out glx here is my current module and
graphics device section from /etc/XF86Config-4
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe"
# This loads the Video for Linux module.
Load "v4l"
# Load "glx"
Load "dri"
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
#Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
Driver "vga"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "nv"
# VideoRam 65536
# Clock lines
# Uncomment following option if you see a big white block
# instead of the cursor!
# Option "sw_cursor"
Option "AGPMode" "1"
Option "DPMS" "on"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
I am running cooker current from Fri.
Charles
PS Yes, I know my system time is wrong, will fix.
