Re: Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-29 Thread af300wsm

On Dec 28, 2008 5:42am, Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote:

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:14:38 +




Did you install the latest Nvidia driver? Perhaps your card isn't

supported anymore. Nvidia dropped some older chipsets in their latest

driver. You can try nvidia-driver-96xx or nvidia-driver-71xx in the

ports. I hope this helps.


I installed the nvidia-driver-96xx because when I installed the latest one  
it said that my chipset wasn't supported. Actually, I think that the  
suggestions from Mike helped. I added the option in my xorg.conf file that  
says to use the nvidia agp drivers before using the kernel agp.ko.


Andy
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Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-28 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:14:38 +
af300...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 
 For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for
 my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver
 and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0:
 
 NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS
 kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended
 
 So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP.
 (Figuring only that this is an AGP board, why not?) My graphical
 environment works but I'd like to resolve this. Also, I think that
 some little quirks in my display can be attributed to this, but I'm
 not sure. Is there some sort of kernel option I must include and
 build my own kernel?
 
 Thanks,
 Andy
 
 ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4
 years ago and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's
 the driver I had to install for support of this chip:

Did you install the latest Nvidia driver? Perhaps your card isn't
supported anymore. Nvidia dropped some older chipsets in their latest
driver. You can try nvidia-driver-96xx or nvidia-driver-71xx in the
ports. I hope this helps.

regards
Marco

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Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
af300...@gmail.com writes:

 For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my
 board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and
 although things are working I'm getting this on console 0:

 NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel
 NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended

Do you have AGP in the kernel?

 So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring
 only  that this is an AGP board, why not?)

If you say 'no' to that, I think it will use its own AGP driver instead
of the native one.

 ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4
 years ago  and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's
 the driver I had  to install for support of this chip:

 nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for
 hardware  OpenGL ren

What do you use NVidia's driver for?  If find that the open-source nv
driver works just fine for most things (I, too, do not play games on my
desktop computer).  Until I installed Google Earth, the proprietary
driver was completely unnecessary for me.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-27 Thread Michael Powell
Lowell Gilbert wrote:

 af300...@gmail.com writes:
 
 For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my
 board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and
 although things are working I'm getting this on console 0:

 NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS
 kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended
 
 Do you have AGP in the kernel?
 
 So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring
 only  that this is an AGP board, why not?)
 
 If you say 'no' to that, I think it will use its own AGP driver instead
 of the native one.

This reminds me of a situation I had on an old KT-400a chipset. Some
VIA chipsets had a weak signal condition on one of the AGP pins. The
way to make it work was to remove device agp from the kernel, install
the nvidia-drivers, and place Option NvAgp 1 in the xorg.conf.

I do not believe the OP scenario is a match, as his is working while
mine would only show colored bars and trash on the screen. I don't
recall which is the default, but here are the options available:
Option NvAgp 0 Disable AGP
Option NvAgp 1 Use NVIDIA's AGP GART Driver
Option NvAgp 2 Use the OS AGP GART driver (agp.ko)
Option NvAgp 3 Attempt 2, fall back to 1

Perhaps placing an appropriate choice in Section Device will
nuke the error message. The OP can probably discern which AGP
is being used from the Xorg.0.log file and choose accordingly.

 
 ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4
 years ago  and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's
 the driver I had  to install for support of this chip:

 nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for
 hardware  OpenGL ren
[snip]

The nvidia-driver ports being broken up into sub-ports because NVidia
broke their monolithic into Legacy or New necessitates the need
to dig out of the comments in the Makefiles which port matches which
hardware. Since the above mentioned version rev matches one of the
port installs I am going to just assume that it is the right one - after
all it probably wouldn't work at all if it wasn't.

-Mike



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Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-26 Thread af300wsm

Hi,

For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my  
board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and  
although things are working I'm getting this on console 0:


NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel
NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended

So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring only  
that this is an AGP board, why not?) My graphical environment works but I'd  
like to resolve this. Also, I think that some little quirks in my display  
can be attributed to this, but I'm not sure. Is there some sort of kernel  
option I must include and build my own kernel?


Thanks,
Andy

ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4 years ago  
and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's the driver I had  
to install for support of this chip:


nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware  
OpenGL ren

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