On Monday 29 October 2001 08:35 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > 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
Wow, sound feasible. Actually I did have trouble with the newest drivers that set the default agpgart use to system first then any it can find. I had to use the Option "NvAGP" "1" to get X to start. Your suggestion might possibly would have avoided that issue. hmmmm. Well, thanks for the information. -s
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