On 5 Jul 2002, amael wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> this is my first post to this list, so i am not entirely sure if this is
> the right forum for advice/support -- apologies if i am wring here...
>
> anyway, i've had lots of difficulties setting up an SMP system over the
> last two days. finally everything boots nicely, it's a debian sid
> (unstable) system, with an SMP configured kernel (2.4.18), the current
> version of X in unstable is 4.1, so that's what i am using. i also
> installed the nvidia drivers for the geforce4 mx 440 card using the
> nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src packages. the nvidia module loads
> nicely too, however when i startx with the driver "nvidia" the screen
> goes black followed by a reboot of the entire system. i tried this with
> and without the agpart module loaded -- same difference. i also tried to
> startx with the "nv" driver, but that doesn't work and i get a list with
> supported cards (geforce4 is not among them)
The GeForce4 was released after 4.2.0 so if you want the "nv" driver
that comes with XFree86 to work on the GeForce4 you'll want to use
XFree86 built from CVS. Yes, I know some people have gotten their
GeForce4 MX cards to work with 4.2.0, but I know that many won't work
with 4.2.0. You could try the "nv" driver in 4.2.0 if you already
have 4.2.0 laying around. It might work, but if it doesn't you'll
need CVS.
Mark.
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