lockup with nvidia drivers for FX 5600
When I use startx, my monitor goes black then shows some weird ascii symbols. I know people have had problems with the screen going black and freezing, but I haven't read a solution to this problem yet. I can Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart my computer without hitting the reset button so it's not locking up completely. I also edited the XF86Config file to Option "NvAGP" "1" which hasn't solved the problem either. Any suggestions?
Vid card: FX 5600XT 256MB Mobo: Epox EP8RDA+ nForce2 north and south bridges lspci gives 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0312 (rev a1) Drivers attempted with: 4620, 5328, 5332 Slackware 9.1 with Kernel 2.6.5 |
This is a commonly reported problem. I've had great luck with the new Suse 9.1 live CD under environments where others failed.
Niall. |
My Mandrake 10.0 installation is running off of the 2.6.3 kernel and that doesn't have a problem with my nvidia card. It configured it during installation. nvidia works on some, but not on others I guess, but I'd like to know if anyone has sucessfully installed the drivers in slack and how to go about it.
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Dear Slick,
I was able to get my GeForce4 MX 440 working in Slack 9.1, after overcoming several problems, including the ascii garbage thing. Then I repartitioned my hard drive and reinstalled everything. Now it doesn't work. I get the ascii garbage again. And I don't remember how I got it working the last time. I did: Load "glx" Driver "nv" --> Driver "nvidia" in XF86Config like last time. I installed Slack from the same CD, got my kernel source from the same tarball as last time, and ran the same NVIDIA-blah.run from last time. So my answer to your post from May is, yes, nVIDIA cards can work with slack. My question is, how? - Ben |
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