[pkg-nvidia-devel] nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx

[Shaun Jackman]

2009/10/29 Shaun Jackman <sjackman at gmail.com>:
> 2009/10/28 Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>:
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:32:13PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
>>> The nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx driver results in very scrambled graphics
>>> for me. I have a GeForce2:
>>> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11
>>> [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1)
>>>
>>> There seems to be a number of errors in Xorg.0.log:
>>>
>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
>>> ... (repeated many times)
>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
>>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed.
>>> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
>>> ...
>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
>>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA X driver has encountered too many errors.  Falling
>>> (WW) NVIDIA(0):     back to legacy PCI mode.
>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
>>>
>>> I can send the entire log, if it helps.
>>>
>>> $ lsmod |grep nv
>>> nvidia               4701136  0
>>> i2c_core               19828  2 nvidia,i2c_amd756
>>> nvidia_agp              6108  1
>>> agpgart                28808  2 nvidia,nvidia_agp
>>
>> Which driver version and kernel version?
>>
>> Anything in dmesg about the gart?
>
> nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx 96.43.07-2
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux quince 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 06:06:52 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> $ dmesg |grep gart
> [   12.851114] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
> [   12.863727] agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce chipset
> [   12.868390] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000

I tried nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx 96.43.13+1-1 as well, and it didn't
work either. I tried NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run downloaded
from NVIDIA, and it didn't work either. Any suggestions where I can
start troubleshooting? The output of lspci follows.

Cheers,
Shaun

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce CPU bridge (rev b2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 01aa (rev b2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce ISA Bridge (rev c3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management (rev c1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:03.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Ethernet
Controller (rev c2)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio
Processing Unit (rev c2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce AC'97
Audio Controller (rev c2)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI-to-PCI bridge (rev c2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce IDE (rev c3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce AGP to PCI Bridge (rev b2)
01:06.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11
[GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1)