I appreciate the help, Scott, and the kind words. Unfortunately,
it's worse than just cutting off the logo splash. The problem is rooted
somewhere in how the Geforce4 MX- and TNT line of cards handle AGP.
I've been to the Nvidia forums, and lots of people are having this same
problem. Nvidia's response has been; "there's a known problem with the
Geforce4 MX and TNT series of cards," but make no mention of a future
driver release fixing it.
I am almost convinced that it's a sideways effort to encourage
people to buy new cards (which, sadly, I am considering).
David
Scott Harney wrote:
> David Jackson wrote:
>
> Excellent review. 1 comment on a specific problem you mentioned.
>
> The second one was almost mission critical - and still remains
>
>> unsolved. Mepis comes with the 6629 Nvidia drivers, and the 2.6.7
>> kernel. This is nice, but the 6629 drivers are bugged with my
>> GeForce 4 MX 440; it will show the splash screen, but everything else
>> gets drawn
>
>
> I believe you can turn off the nvidia logo splash screen from
> displaying at all. Have you tried setting the following in the
> "Device" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
> Option "NoLogo" "1"
>
> The option has been in the nvidia drivers for a while now. If it
> works, you should probably file a bug report with Mepis and they can
> add it by default to their X config.
>
>
