On Sunday 19 May 2002 09:42 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Harddrake kicks me out of X when I try to run it now. I put in a > > new video card today and wonder if anyone has heard of harddrake
> From XFree86's pages, nvidia, 4.2.0: > Support (accelerated) for the Riva 128, 128ZX, TNT, TNT2 (Ultra, > Vanta, M64), GeForce (DDR, 256), Quadro, GeForce2 (GTS, Ultra, MX), > GeForce3, and Quadro2 is provided by the "nv" driver. I thought I read in a recent changelog they supported up to the gf4 ti 4200. So I figured the only difference in the all those 4xxx is the clockspeed, that the others'd be okay. And it works good actually. Except for that one little hiccup. That and it's not identified fully. It's called: VGA compatible controller: PCI device 10de:0251 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162) in /proc/pci and harddrake calls it UnKnown Card. :) So, yeah, I knew it wasn't really supported fully. But I'm kinda used to that. :) > So it could be the Gef4 isn't handled yet? Have you tried the 'nv' > driver, or are you usin the 'nvidia' drivers? ....and with what > kernel? I haven't been able to get nvidia's to work properly with a > Gef2 with kernels newer than 8.2's 2.4.18-6mdk. Even a -13mdk I > compiled myself (with gcc 2.9.6). What error mesg's, if any, do you > get runnin 'harddrake' from a terminal? .... running 'startx' from > level 3? I suspect a XFree/Gef4 problem, or a kernel/Gef4/nvidia > snafu. If the card will work with the 'nv' driver, then it's got to > be another nvidia drivers problem. Naw, I didn't try the nv driver. I already had nvidia installed and I put the new card in and didn't do anything except comment out the video ram in conf. But no doubt you've hit the nail on the head. That's about as close as we can get without more errors being reported. But I looked through many many logs yesterday and could find nothing out of the ordinary. I always start harddrake, mcc, everything from console - and the only error it shot was about not finding the floppy module. I'm running 2.4.18-7mdk, the XFree that came with 8.2 I think, and the 2808 drivers. Yeah, startx from level 3. (Well, 'kde3' from level 3 most of the time). :) You wouldn't know the exact video ram of a 128mb card or how I could find it, do you? That's what I was looking around for when I discovered the harddrake hiccup. Then I redid the drivers in hopes it would help. Didn't. But since I can get it back by hitting alt F10, I guess I don't really have much of a problem - no more than I use harddrake anyway. Anyway, thank you for your input Tom. I spend most of the time waiting for better linux support. It's my fault of course, we know better than to purchase brand new technology. Why do I keep doing it? :D -s
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