Hello,

Please excuse my bad english, I'll try to explain my problem best as I can.
I just bought nvidia Geforce MX 4000, it seemed kind of cheap, only 80$, plus it said on the box that it has linux support?, so what a heck, I went for it..

Well, after I booted to my Slackware 9.1, I went to XFree (xf86cfg -textmode) configuration and could not find nv Geforce MX 4000 on the list of the drivers. So I tried almost every single driver for Geforce MX cards that was on that list, but I got always same error: device does not exists for selected driver. So after that, I went to nvidia.com, downloaded latest driver pack for linux, installed it (it recompiled some parts of my kernel), and followed the instructions in README file, so I opened my XFree86 config file with text editor (pico ), and changed vendor to 'nvidia' instead of 'nv', but still I could not get into X beacuse there is no driver for my card.

Could anyone please explain to me how to get this card working with GNU/Linux distro (slackware in my case), so I don't have to change the card.

Any help appreciated

Sincerely, tmike

what you did should work.

Try reinstalling the driver and do exactly what the README says.

You will have to restart X when you have finished.

Does a NVIDIA splash screen come up when you start the computer. It should and if it does not it probably means the driver is not installed correctly

install the drivers whithout starting x to do this press ctrl-alt-f1 than loggin then run this command
init 3 or telinit 3
then run
ps -elgrep dm
to check that x isn't running than install the drivers

It's not working.

I tried almost every driver that there is in XFree list of drivers (xf86cfg -textmode), and I even tried to put manually driver name "GeForce MX 4000"

Here is full XFree86.0.log output


_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/zeljko:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

XFree86 Version 4.4.0
Release Date: 29 February 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.26 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux zeljko 2.4.22 #6 Tue Sep 2 17:43:01 PDT 2003 i686
Build Date: 28 April 2004
Changelog Date: 29 February 2004
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat May 29 19:15:19 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
(==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) | |-->Device "Card0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
(**) XKB: model: "pc101"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.7
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.7
(--) using VT number 7

(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x00000000, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,2560 card 1043,8093 rev 01 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 8086,2562 card 1043,8093 rev 01 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:0: chip 8086,24c2 card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1d:1: chip 8086,24c4 card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:2: chip 8086,24c7 card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:7: chip 8086,24cd card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 0c,03,20 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card 0000,0000 rev 81 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,24c0 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,24cb card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:5: chip 8086,24c5 card 1043,8098 rev 01 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:09:0: chip 10de,0185 card 0000,0000 rev a4 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:0a:0: chip 100b,0020 card 1385,f311 rev 00 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:0d:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 1043,805b rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x000e (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[1] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b4ff (0x100) IX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x0000bc00 - 0x0000bcff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xdc000000 - 0xde7fffff (0x2800000) MX[B]
(II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xdff00000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x8100000) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(--) PCI: (0:2:0) Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated Graphics Device rev 1, Mem @ 0xe8000000/27, 0xdf000000/19
(--) PCI:*(1:9:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x0185) rev 164, Mem @ 0xdd000000/24, 0xe0000000/27, BIOS @ 0xdffe0000/17
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xf0000000 from 0xf7ffffff to 0xefffffff
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xdc000000 - 0xdc0000ff (0x100) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0xdc800000 - 0xdc800fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x10000200 - 0x100002ff (0x100) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x100001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xdb800000 - 0xdb8003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xde800000 - 0xde8003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[7] -1 0 0xdffe0000 - 0xdfffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[9] -1 0 0xdd000000 - 0xddffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[10] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b4ff (0x100) IX[B]
[11] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x0000e100 - 0x0000e13f (0x40) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x0000940f (0x10) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009800 (0x1) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a000 (0x1) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a400 (0x1) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a800 (0x1) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d01f (0x20) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) Inactive PCI resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xdf000000 - 0xdf07ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
[0] -1 0 0xdc000000 - 0xdc0000ff (0x100) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0xdc800000 - 0xdc800fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x10000200 - 0x100002ff (0x100) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x100001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xdb800000 - 0xdb8003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xde800000 - 0xde8003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[7] -1 0 0xdffe0000 - 0xdfffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[9] -1 0 0xdd000000 - 0xddffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[10] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b4ff (0x100) IX[B]
[11] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x0000e100 - 0x0000e13f (0x40) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x0000940f (0x10) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009800 (0x1) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a000 (0x1) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a400 (0x1) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a800 (0x1) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d01f (0x20) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) Inactive PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
[0] -1 0 0xdf000000 - 0xdf07ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x0fffffff (0xff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) All system resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x0fffffff (0xff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xdc000000 - 0xdc0000ff (0x100) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xdc800000 - 0xdc800fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0x10000200 - 0x100002ff (0x100) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x100001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0xdb800000 - 0xdb8003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[10] -1 0 0xde800000 - 0xde8003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[11] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[12] -1 0 0xdffe0000 - 0xdfffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B)
[13] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[14] -1 0 0xdd000000 - 0xddffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[15] -1 0 0xdf000000 - 0xdf07ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[16] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[17] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b4ff (0x100) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x0000e100 - 0x0000e13f (0x40) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x0000940f (0x10) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009800 (0x1) IX[B]
[25] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a000 (0x1) IX[B]
[26] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a400 (0x1) IX[B]
[27] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a800 (0x1) IX[B]
[28] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d01f (0x20) IX[B]
[29] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B]
[30] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a
(II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
(II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension FontCache
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "type1"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a
(II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.2
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) Loading font CID
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a
(II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project & the After X-TT Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 2.1.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "speedo"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a
(II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.1
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Speedo
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.5336
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:30:46 PST 2004
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:09:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(WW) NVIDIA: Chipset "GeForce4 MX 4000" in Device section "Card0" isn't valid for this driver
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.

"Fatal server error:
no screens found"

This usually means that in /etc/X11/XF86Config file that you did not specify the driver to be used for all screens.

If you use vim in the file and search for "screen", it looks like this:

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "FireGL 2"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24


You want to make sure that "Device" is equal to a section already built into your XF86Config file. Most time it is called
"nvidia" so you want to make sure you type "nvidia" in the "Device" section of "Screens" So if you search for "nvidia" it
should look something like this:

#
# nvidia
#
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
VendorName "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
# update this with the PCI id of your card. Consult the output
# of the 'lspci' command.
#BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
Option "Overlay" "on"
Option "CIOverlay" "on"
# Option "NvAGP" "1"
# Option "UBB" "off"
EndSection


Hope this helps.