I knew someone was going to take me to task on this... Tag your it! It has to do with initializing the video buffer and the AGP along with the AGP memory regions used by the Nvidia drivers.
If you install LM8.1 and get X running, X itself sets up the registers of the Nvidia board one way. It also circumvents the AGP module load (and autoload) via /etc/modules.conf. If you install the Nvidia drivers on a system that was not already running the Nvidia drivers and subsequently try to start X, even after manually loading the Nvidia support module, X will freeze or fail to start. This may make it seem as if the Nvidia drivers do not work. A warm boot is insufficient to fix this as it does not re-init the chipsets fully resulting in similar behavior. I've verified this on 6 separate systems with 4 different motherboards under 8.0 and 8.1. You may have not noticed this behavior if you've either upgraded or had a prior version running fine, in which case a module unload and subsequent load of the new module works ok. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of s |Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:06 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] nvadia drivers for later 2.4 kernels | | |On Monday 29 October 2001 02:23 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | |> Shut down your system fully, then restart and finish configuring X. |> |> You DO need to shut down and perform a cold start. |> |> -JMS | |hmmmm, I've never done that. (MOF, I don't even reboot - just |restart the |X-server). May I ask why you feel it is necessary to shut |completely down? |-s | | |
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