Messages in this thread | | | From | Guy <> | Subject | Re: nvidia.o on 2.4.22/2.6.0 ?? | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:33:09 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 21:25, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:33:30 -0000, Max Valdez <maxvaldez@yahoo.com> said: > > Have anyone made a successful run of X with nvidia (closes > > source) module ??, I have a TNT2 running on a > > 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 kernel, but when I try to run X on 2.4.22* > > or 2.6.0* I alway get an error about my screen and > > /dev/nvidia0. > > 1) Get the 4496 drivers from NVidia, use "--extract-only" to > get the pieces out. 2) Surf over to http://www.minion.de/nvidia > and pick up the patch. Apply it in the > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv directory. While > booted to -test7, 'cp Makefile.kbuild Makefile' and then > 'make'. > > (I posted more detailed directions a while ago, they should be > in the list archives) > > It would certainly help if you were more specific about "get an > error about my screen and /dev/nvidia0".
What Valdis said.
I have several nvidia cards in some of the machines I support.
Some pointers:
1} 2.4.20 is absolutely rock solid with the 4496 driver. If stability is required, I strongly suggest 2.4.20.
2} If you want to play with 2.4.22 or 2.6, then set up multiple kernels. That way you can switch between running stably and experimenting at boot time. I use GRUB. Note that you'll need to compile a version of the nvidia 4496 drivers for each kernel. To prevent different versions of the nvidia driver from being deleted, do # touch /lib/modules/2.X.Y-whatever/video/nvidia.o after compiling each version.
3} Different mobos/chipsets and nvidia GPU combinations seem to be more stable than others. My least stable combination of the machines I have access to is the nforce chipset with the builtin GeForce 2 graphics engine. I don't know if nvidia is responsible for this irony or ASUS.
The drivers and patches indicated by Valdis work. On many machines, you'll get "badness in pci_subsys_init in search.c" messages. It's my opinion that this is something that nVidia needs to fix. In 2.6.0-test7-bk3, APIC and ACPI seems reasonably solid.
Guy
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