On Saturday, Apr 06, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, James Boyden wrote:
>
> > [ ... ]
> > The problem is, the screen goes black. I don't mean "blank", as in,
> > nothing drawn on it. I mean "black", as if it had been switched off.
> > [ ... ]
> > Moving the mouse, typing at the keyboard have no effect. The only way
> > I can get my console back is with ctrl-alt-backspace, and then switching
> > the monitor off then on again. (I can ctrl-alt-F? VT-switch, but that
> > also requires me to turn the monitor off then on again to get a picture).
> >
> > [ ... ]
> > My motherboard is the [ ABIT KR7A with the VIA KT266A ] chipset, my CPU
> > is an AMD Athlon XP, I have 512MB DDR RAM; I've built the kernel with
> > and without AGP support, with and without APM support (currently APM
> > support but no AGP).
>
> CVS from March 24 should be fine. The driver has trouble figuring
> out which head you're on sometimes:
>
> (II) NV(0): Detected CRTC controller 0 being used
>
> You might try the other controller with
>
> Option "CrtcNumber" "1"
>
> in the Section "Device" as described in the man page.
Just tried this.
Now have the following lines in the XFree86.0.log:
(**) NV(0): Option "CrtcNumber" "1"
...
(II) NV(0): Detected CRTC controller 0 being used
(**) NV(0): Forcing usage of CRTC 1
but no difference in end-result.
> As for the "nvidia" driver, that supported NV17 since version 2802
> and some earlier board board designs since 2313. If you wish to
> use AGP with this though you'll need to at least disable 4 meg
> pages (pass mem=nopentium to the kernel) due to AGP+AMD issues in
> Linux kernel.
But I should be able to get 2-D without using the "NVIDIA" driver, right?
(Trying to reduce the number of variables to consider at this stage).
Do the AGP+AMD issues affect the XFree86 "nv" driver as well, or only the
"NVIDIA" driver? (I thought the former, but you seem to be implying the
latter...)
Is passing "mem=nopentium" to the kernel (which I tried earlier, before
resorting to compiling the kernel without AGP support; neither seemed to
help) better/worse/equivalent/unrelated to removing AGP support entirely
(in this instance)?
Thanks once again,
Jimmy.
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