On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 23:05, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On 5 Jul 2002, amael wrote:
> > 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. > does that also explain why the "nvidia" driver doesn't work? because iirc this driver supposedly supports geforce4 chips, right? otherwise i'll try CVS... thanks a lot! amael _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
