On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, James Boyden wrote:
> 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.
Let me know what specific brand of card you have, and I'll
try to find one around here. Also, if you know the bios
version can you send that too? (it's the first thing to get
printed out when the machine boots, but some monitors won't
sync quickly enough to let you see it).
>
> > 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).
All I can say is that all the NV17s I've gotten my hands on (about 4)
work with the "nv" driver. It's not out of the question for a
different board layout or bios that I haven't tested to be non-functional
with that driver though.
>
> 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...)
Only the "nvidia" driver. The "nv" driver doesn't use AGP.
Mark.
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