Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Well, somewhere deep in the BIOS peripheral settings, there are
things like "Enable AGP Fast Write" or similar. Set all those
things to Off or Disabled. You wil want stability first, speed
maybe later. It probably won't make a difference, but it at least
excludes one possible source of problems.
Yeah, those were all disabled when I was running Unichrome. I've turned
them all on for NVIDIA though. No stability problems.
You've said you have an MSI K8M800 motherboard. Looking at
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_list.asp?class=mb&cpu=3, such
boards only support "Sempron 2600+, 2800+, 3000+, 3100+, 3300+",
not a 2500+. This may not be a problem, but then again, it might
not be listed for a reason.
Hmmmm. Well I checked the motherboard manual when I bought this computer
and it says "Supports AMD K8 64 bit processors (Socket 754).
No "sse" USE flag? You could try adding it and re-emerging Xorg.
Well, 3dnow, mmx and sse are all masked in the amd64 profile anyway...
To confirm your exact CPU, 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'.
It is an AMD Sempron 2500+
An 'lsmod' on this system under Gentoo.
Module Size Used by
w83627hf 34984 0
eeprom 8784 0
i2c_sensor 3840 2 w83627hf,eeprom
i2c_isa 2816 0
snd_seq_oss 36608 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 56896 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 55712 0
snd_mixer_oss 18880 1 snd_pcm_oss
ohci_hcd 21316 0
snd_via82xx 29312 4
snd_ac97_codec 91352 1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm 97420 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 25544 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 8320 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 28448 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 10064 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 60200 16
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
i2c_viapro 9300 0
i2c_core 23704 5
w83627hf,eeprom,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa,i2c_viapro
ehci_hcd 31944 0
uhci_hcd 33568 0
8139too 28800 0
nvidia 4055676 12
This is the current one. Back with Unichrome, I had via and drm loaded
in place of nvidia.
Nothing fancy in there I guess.
An 'emerge -pv xorg-x11'.
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 (-3dfx) (-3dnow)
+bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server
-insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal (-mmx) +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk
(-sse) -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB
A 'cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf'.
This is errr one of the xorg.conf files used of Unichrome. The other one
had dri disabled, that's all...
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/lib64/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "xtrap"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "LG Electronics"
ModelName "StudioWorks 700i"
HorizSync 30 - 70
VertRefresh 50 - 160
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAClocks" # [<bool>]
#Option "KGAUniversal" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "via"
VendorName "VIA Technologies, Inc."
BoardName "S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "ForcePCIMode" "True"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
And 'grep "^(--\|^(WW\|^(EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log'.
Well, I can't get you those results for Unichrome on this Gentoo
machine. It's all NVIDIA in there now, even in the FC4 logs...
Benno
Mrugesh
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