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Tristan Scott wrote: | Havent found anyone else on nvnews or gentoo forums with my problem.. or | even a particularly similar problem. I ought to have mentioned I'd | looked at forums, but thought nvnews might be new one... well, it was | early morning. | | Changed kernel to 2.6.6 and rebuilt config from scratch. | agpgart built in - no go.
Compiled it out, tried nvAGP. nope. Compiled it back in, changed XF86Config from nvAGP to AGPGART, rebuilt with the non-gentoo-recommended 5336 drivers using nvidia installer. AND IT WORKED! 4n1c8 in ~ [26916]: cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 4x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Disabled
no idea what i did though. ive tried the nvidia drivers before via nvidia installer. this combination hasnt been tried - nvidia 5336, compiled in agpgart, ti4600, 2.6.6 kernel
Lesson for all you people out there: Dont buy a 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
| changed card to a Ti4600 (from Ti4400) - no go | | The AGP did work back in the days before windows stopped working, with | either card. | | I'm thinking this motherboard will never do it under linux, people have | mentioned agp/via problems, but are always saved by switching to nvAGP | or agpgart. | | If you want to nvidia driver to work under 2.6.6, you've got to leave 4k | stacks off, lave register arguments off and reverse a module move patch. | While it will function with register arguments on, its unstable i'm | told. i didnt try it. | | Tristan Scott wrote: | | adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote: | | | On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:54:05AM +0000, Tristan Scott wrote: | | | | | <snip> | | | Hmmmm, non-free software, I shouldn't really reply to this but then I | | also use | | | the Nvidia non-free driver on my desktop (I unfortunately have an | | addiction to | | | FPS games). | | The nv driver does double-buffering but not glx (therefore no ut2004 | et al) | | | | | Does XFree86 actually work? as in you have a GUI but no AGP? I ask as | | this | | Yup, double-buffering seems to be broken too. 3d work respectably, such | | as ut2004 in 800x600, every effect off, ~30 fps. consistent with a pci | | card methinks. | | | isn't clear in the original email. If XFree86 won't start then it | | could be | | | something to do with the glx bits needing to be installed in a | | different manner | | they seem to work. /usr/lib/tls does not exist, and nvidia 5336 via | | gentoo's portage made no mention of it. | | | to work with kernel 2.6, I had a problem with that on my Debian | | machine in the | | | past. | | | | | | Anyhow I would recommend that you checkout the Nvidia support forum | | which is | | | linked to from Nvidias site (and Nvidia people do post there) and can | | be found | | | at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 you | | will | | | probably find a solution there, or some people who have the same | | problems. | | Will do... in the morning *looks at clock* later this morning I mean. | | | | | | Adam | | | | _______________________________________________ | main@lists.alug.org.uk | http://www.alug.org.uk/ | http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main | Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! | |
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