On Tuesday 30 September 2003 08:43 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:05 pm, J.C. Woods wrote:
> > L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > >I have ASUS 9180SE AGP 8x video card 64MB ram (nVidia Corporation NV18
> > >[GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] rev 162). I have edited /etc/XF86Config-4 for
> > > driver as nvidia instead of nv. I get X OK with driver from nvidia
> > > site.
> > >
> > >But I have following lines in dmesg.
> > >0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496
> > > Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
> > >Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> > >agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
> > >agpgart: unsupported bridge
> > >agpgart: no supported devices found.
> > >0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
> > >
> > >
> > >I have only following warning lines in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> > >(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device CRT-0
> > >
> > >I have problem in playing xine. It shows only some white screen in mdk
> > > 9.1. Does the above indicate some where
> > >something is wrong?
> >
> > Yes, when using AGP 8X, there is no support for agpgart in the 2.4.x
> > kernel. Look through the list archives, and you will learn more about
> > this issue. I, for one, have posted several times about it. There are
> > some kernel patches out there but most of these seem to be for radeon
> > cards. If you can switch to AGP 4X by way of the bios, I would strongly
> > suggest doing so, or you can wait for the support to be in the newer
> > kernels yet to be released.....
>
> but the same setup works ok and xine plays normal in knoppix 3.2, of
> course, with fbdev video driver. I changed to 4x also. then also mdk
> doesn't allow me to play xine. That puzzles me.
My card is about the same exact card as L.V.Gandhi has, mine is a Chaintech
GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x, and mine works fine out of the box with a ASUS A7N8X
board. And I am pretty sure that it is running with AGP set to 8x in the
BIOS, but I am not interested in rebooting to check it out.
My XF86Config-4 file contains this info on the card:
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Now I had a problem with Xine running initially too. What I did was get rid of
all the DVD drivers that I had installed, and then carefully load them until
it now works like a charm.
I would say that instead of messing around with video, unless that is not
default, and more or less like my XF86 configuration.
Rob
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