Re: XF86Config problem
On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:16 am, Stiven Andre wrote: adding Option IgnoreEDID 1 to my Device section in my XF86Config-4 solved it. my card does have tv-out, but i dont think that was the problem (nothing was connected) tal. From: Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XF86Config problem Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:34:29 +0200 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 06:25 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: this is mandrake 9, fresh install . my card is NVidia GEforce MX. everything worked very nicly after installation. i rebooted the machine today, and X will not load. it complains that no screens found, which is kinda redicules since i didnt change anything in the config file, and didnt change anything in my hardware since the last time it worked. Look for clues in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it doesn't make any sense to you, try posting it to the list and let others take a look at it. log attached. anyone ? tal. XFree86.0.log May be it will not help but. I had the same problem with my Radeon VE card. It worked fine and then just stoped working with the same message. The problem was in the TV out. If your card has a TV out and you have connected something to it, just unplug the cable and then reboot your machine twice and try to start the X server. Regards. S.A. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config problem
What tha hell is IgnoreEDID ?!?!?!? Could you elaborate on where you obtained it and how it works ? --- Oleg Kobets Network Administrator Breakthrough LTD. 054-747132 03-6349922 Ext 26 Black hole is God divided by zero - Original Message - From: Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stiven Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 10:48 AM Subject: Re: XF86Config problem On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:16 am, Stiven Andre wrote: adding Option IgnoreEDID 1 to my Device section in my XF86Config-4 solved it. my card does have tv-out, but i dont think that was the problem (nothing was connected) tal. From: Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XF86Config problem Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:34:29 +0200 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 06:25 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: this is mandrake 9, fresh install . my card is NVidia GEforce MX. everything worked very nicly after installation. i rebooted the machine today, and X will not load. it complains that no screens found, which is kinda redicules since i didnt change anything in the config file, and didnt change anything in my hardware since the last time it worked. Look for clues in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it doesn't make any sense to you, try posting it to the list and let others take a look at it. log attached. anyone ? tal. XFree86.0.log May be it will not help but. I had the same problem with my Radeon VE card. It worked fine and then just stoped working with the same message. The problem was in the TV out. If your card has a TV out and you have connected something to it, just unplug the cable and then reboot your machine twice and try to start the X server. Regards. S.A. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] == To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config problem
On Sunday 13 October 2002 11:03 am, Oleg Kobets wrote: What tha hell is IgnoreEDID ?!?!?!? Could you elaborate on where you obtained it and how it works ? http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/redhat71/?page=5.php3 http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hgforce.html basicly, it will not relay on the monitor to supply the refresh rates information. this is happening when using a plug and play monitor type in XF86Config-4, and not specifying a monitor type. XFree cannot actually tell which monitor you are using, and will relay on getting the refresh rate information from your Device section - your graphic card. tal. --- Oleg Kobets Network Administrator Breakthrough LTD. 054-747132 03-6349922 Ext 26 Black hole is God divided by zero - Original Message - From: Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stiven Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 10:48 AM Subject: Re: XF86Config problem On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:16 am, Stiven Andre wrote: adding Option IgnoreEDID 1 to my Device section in my XF86Config-4 solved it. my card does have tv-out, but i dont think that was the problem (nothing was connected) tal. From: Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XF86Config problem Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:34:29 +0200 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 06:25 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: this is mandrake 9, fresh install . my card is NVidia GEforce MX. everything worked very nicly after installation. i rebooted the machine today, and X will not load. it complains that no screens found, which is kinda redicules since i didnt change anything in the config file, and didnt change anything in my hardware since the last time it worked. Look for clues in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it doesn't make any sense to you, try posting it to the list and let others take a look at it. log attached. anyone ? tal. XFree86.0.log May be it will not help but. I had the same problem with my Radeon VE card. It worked fine and then just stoped working with the same message. The problem was in the TV out. If your card has a TV out and you have connected something to it, just unplug the cable and then reboot your machine twice and try to start the X server. Regards. S.A. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] == To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config problem
On Sunday 13 October 2002 09:03, Oleg Kobets wrote: What tha hell is IgnoreEDID ?!?!?!? Could you elaborate on where you obtained it and how it works ? --- Oleg Kobets This is from nvidia's README: Option IgnoreEDID boolean Disable probing of EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) from your monitor. Requested modes are compared against values gotten from your monitor EDIDs (if any) during mode validation. Some monitors are known to lie about their own capabilities. Ignoring the values that the monitor gives may help get a certain mode validated. On the other hand, this may be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. Default: Use EDIDs. -- Meir Kriheli MKsoft systems http://www.mksoft.co.il = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config problem
From: Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XF86Config problem Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:34:29 +0200 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 06:25 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: this is mandrake 9, fresh install . my card is NVidia GEforce MX. everything worked very nicly after installation. i rebooted the machine today, and X will not load. it complains that no screens found, which is kinda redicules since i didnt change anything in the config file, and didnt change anything in my hardware since the last time it worked. Look for clues in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it doesn't make any sense to you, try posting it to the list and let others take a look at it. log attached. anyone ? tal. XFree86.0.log May be it will not help but. I had the same problem with my Radeon VE card. It worked fine and then just stoped working with the same message. The problem was in the TV out. If your card has a TV out and you have connected something to it, just unplug the cable and then reboot your machine twice and try to start the X server. Regards. S.A. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config problem
On Friday 11 October 2002 01:33 am, Daniel Pearson wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:55 pm, Noam Meltzer wrote: also you might want to upgrade the version of the nvidia driver. its already the latest from NVidia. Then try an older version. Sometimes a new release introduces new bugs, despite the fact that it fixes the older ones. been there to. the problem also happend with older drivers, and then I've decided to upgrade to the latest. this is obviously a missconfiguration problem, which i just cannot put my finger on. tal. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config problem
You might want to add such a line: BusID PCI:1:0:0 into your 'Section Device' in the XF86Config file. it helped for me. also you might want to upgrade the version of the nvidia driver. Noam On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 01:53, Amir Tal wrote: this is mandrake 9, fresh install . my card is NVidia GEforce MX. everything worked very nicly after installation. i rebooted the machine today, and X will not load. it complains that no screens found, which is kinda redicules since i didnt change anything in the config file, and didnt change anything in my hardware since the last time it worked. the only modifications i did was to add the load glx option for 3d support, and changed the driver name from nv to nvidia (had to do that for playing quake ;) the only way to load X now, is to change it back to nv and to disable glx support. NVidia drivers are installed (from the nvidia website) and the NVdriver module is loaded. XFree version is 4.2.1 my XF86Config-4 is attached. help...? tal. # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype #Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us_intl Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Plug'n Play HorizSync 30-96 VertRefresh 50-160 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer Screen screen1 EndSection -- Noam Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4853872 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config problem
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:55 pm, Noam Meltzer wrote: also you might want to upgrade the version of the nvidia driver. its already the latest from NVidia. Then try an older version. Sometimes a new release introduces new bugs, despite the fact that it fixes the older ones. -- { Daniel Jacob Pearson | 15 pounds of cow brains is not art! } {[EMAIL PROTECTED]|-- Seth Pearson } msg22537/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XF86Config problem
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 06:25 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: this is mandrake 9, fresh install . my card is NVidia GEforce MX. everything worked very nicly after installation. i rebooted the machine today, and X will not load. it complains that no screens found, which is kinda redicules since i didnt change anything in the config file, and didnt change anything in my hardware since the last time it worked. Look for clues in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it doesn't make any sense to you, try posting it to the list and let others take a look at it. log attached. anyone ? tal. XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-23mdkenterprise i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Tue Oct 8 03:28:47 2002 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (==) ServerLayout layout1 (**) |--Screen screen1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor monitor1 (**) | |--Device device1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) XKB: model: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout us_intl (**) XKB: layout: us_intl (WW) Option XkbOptions requires an string value (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) FontPath set to unix/:-1 (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (**) Option AllowMouseOpenFail Using vt 7 (--) using VT number 7 (II) Open APM successful (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8090, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,1a30 card 8086,1a30 rev 03 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,1a31 card , rev 03 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card , rev 12 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,2440 card , rev 12 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,244b card 8086,2442 rev 12 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:2: chip 8086,2442 card 8086,2442 rev 12 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,2443 card 8086,2442 rev 12 class 0c,05,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:4: chip 8086,2444 card 8086,2442 rev 12 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0110 card , rev b2 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:04:0: chip 1274,5880 card 1274,2000 rev 02 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:09:0: chip 8086,1229 card 8086,0009 rev 05 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0a:0: chip 109e,0350 card , rev 12 class 04,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: scanpci (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) UnloadModule: scanpci (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0e (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 I/O range: (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0xdc00 - 0xddff (0x200) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0xd000 - 0xd7ff (0x800) MX[B] (II) Bus 2: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,2,2), BCTRL: 0x06 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus 2 I/O range: [0] -1 0xc000 - 0xc0ff (0x100) IX[B] [1] -1 0xc400 - 0xc4ff (0x100) IX[B] [2] -1 0xc800 - 0xc8ff (0x100) IX[B] [3] -1
Re: XF86Config problem
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: this is mandrake 9, fresh install . my card is NVidia GEforce MX. everything worked very nicly after installation. i rebooted the machine today, and X will not load. it complains that no screens found, which is kinda redicules since i didnt change anything in the config file, and didnt change anything in my hardware since the last time it worked. Look for clues in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it doesn't make any sense to you, try posting it to the list and let others take a look at it. -- { Daniel Jacob Pearson | 15 pounds of cow brains is not art! } {[EMAIL PROTECTED]|-- Seth Pearson } msg22490/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
XF86Config problem
this is mandrake 9, fresh install . my card is NVidia GEforce MX. everything worked very nicly after installation. i rebooted the machine today, and X will not load. it complains that no screens found, which is kinda redicules since i didnt change anything in the config file, and didnt change anything in my hardware since the last time it worked. the only modifications i did was to add the load glx option for 3d support, and changed the driver name from nv to nvidia (had to do that for playing quake ;) the only way to load X now, is to change it back to nv and to disable glx support. NVidia drivers are installed (from the nvidia website) and the NVdriver module is loaded. XFree version is 4.2.1 my XF86Config-4 is attached. help...? tal. # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype #Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us_intl Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Plug'n Play HorizSync 30-96 VertRefresh 50-160 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer Screen screen1 EndSection