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




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