nvidia 6200 and agp

William Oldham · 07-06-2006, 11:53 AM

I am having trouble with a nvidia 6200 card. I am
running 2.6.8-3-386 on a K9VXSE asus motherboard and
have an amd64 3300 processor. I had just reinstalled
the system so it is nice and fresh. Used the nidia driver and the auto config of the xf86config-4 file.
that clearly shows the nvidia driver. the agp gets
installed and the driver gets installed . using gdm.
but when starting gdm screen goes black and times out
gdm is running. looking at the xfreeconf log there
is a line loading extension NV-CONTROL then
WW NVIDIA(0): wait(2,3)0x80000,0x000 0x00 aec,0)
i have looked but cannot find any trace of something on
my machine called nv-control. where does it come from.
also the wait state would indicate some required child
process has not completed, but dispite looking at all
log files i cannot surmise what it may be. It seems
there is some library reqd libXNVcrrl.a cannot find it
either. Although I have checked all files and links listed in the nivida install guide and all are where they need to be. any help is appreciated. There is
nothing out of the ordinary running as i have not installed anything else in hopes of getting the graphics
working first.

Dutch Master · 07-06-2006, 12:03 PM

Does the X-server know what monitor you use? Are the values in the config-file correct? Perhaps you should manually edit the file to use the VESA driver on 800*600 resolution to see if wrong info on the monitor is the culprit.

William Oldham · 07-07-2006, 01:30 PM

everthing works fine with the vesa driver

farslayer · 07-07-2006, 03:33 PM

Have you tried installing the nVidia driver using Debians Module-assistant ? Works well for me.. my 6800 card is running great for BZflag, UT, Q4, etc..

Take a peek at this how-to, it works for me when the nvidia installer doesn't.
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/
I think it's also faster using this method to update my video driver after a kernel change as well..

abbreviated version as root of course

Code:

    apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common 
    m-a prepare
    m-a auto-install nvidia
    apt-get install nvidia-glx

I do not recall if I manually edited the X config the first time or not..
I probably did but once that is done you really don't need to touch it again.

William Oldham · 07-08-2006, 10:12 AM

I will give that a try. I had those instructions, but thought I
would give the nvidia downloaded drivers a chance first. I am
still wondering where NV-CONTROL comes from. I have not been able
to find any trace of it on my computer inspite of the fact that I search everywhere including the source code of the driver.

William Oldham · 07-08-2006, 12:50 PM

well I tried that. Lots of big changes ensued where i did
m-a prepare did not expect that.
anyway the end result of the wait state still there. so it
did not work.
the waits are
(WW)NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2,3,0x8000,0x0000000,0x00000aec,0)

Kaboosh · 02-06-2007, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by William Oldham

well I tried that. Lots of big changes ensued where i did
m-a prepare did not expect that.
anyway the end result of the wait state still there. so it
did not work.
the waits are
(WW)NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2,3,0x8000,0x0000000,0x00000aec,0)

I'm just wondering if you're using evdev or not because it is what seems to be related to the problem on my multiseat setup.