How to upgrade my ASUS AX1650PRO

Hi guys,

I am using nVidia RIVA TNT 2 32MB and currently i bought a new card ASUS AX1650PRO 256MB. When i tried to plug in the card and boot my OS. It fails to load into GNOME.
I certainly thinks that it has something to do with my nVidia drivers installed in it right now. How do i uninstall, use a generic driver to boot, and install the drivers for my AX1650PRO.

I'm using Fedora Core 5.

/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:0c.0 Multimedia controller: Sigma Designs, Inc. EM8475 REALmagic DVD/MPEG-4 A/V Decoder (rev 01)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

Thanks.

Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace the name of the driver under Section "Device" with vesa. Then remove your nvidia driver. If you reboot after this, you should be using the generic vesa driver instead - then you can install the fglrx driver. Make sure you have kernel headers installed as well as some other required packages - search google for a how-to.

Edit: I see you are using FC5; if you set up livna repo, installing the driver is as easy as doing
yum install kmod-fglrx. Only I don't know to what extent Fedora Core 5 is still supported by livna; support from the Fedora project expires in a month so you may also consider upgrading all of your system. As for the livna repo, don't keep it enabled by default if you have other third party repos - it could turn into a bloodbath.

Thanks jay73, i shall give it a shot right now.

Hi guys,

I manage to start my computer using this new card after i changed to vesa and removed nvidia drivers.

when i run /sbin/lspci,

01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71e1 (rev 9e)

Is my card a fake or what?

in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]"
EndSection

Notice that the BoardName did not change. Any problems with those ?

Oooh, did i mention that i have fglrx installed? Yes, i installed fglrx.

Thanks.

You can manually change the BoardName if you want to:

Radeon X1650 [RV530]

Originally Posted by jay73 You can manually change the BoardName if you want to: Radeon X1650 [RV530]

Thanks again jay73.

What about the other question?

when i run /sbin/lspci, 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71e1 (rev 9e)

Are there any possible problems for lspci not detecting my device correctly?

The "unknown device" message isn't necessarily an indication that something is wrong. Maybe lspci fails to detect the manufacturer (ATI) or, more likely, it's a bit confused because the ATI driver addresses the X1600 while yours is an X1650.

As long as

glxinfo | grep direct

returns "yes", you should be fine. And if

glxgears

gives you at least 5000fps, that's confirmation that nothing is wrong.

drivers sometimes fail to load if the device isn't correctly identified.

you can always update the pci.ids file on your system and see if it can then detect the device properly.

The Linux PCI ID Repository
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/

download the file and place it in /usr/share/misc/

jay73, both the results return positive. Thanks for the piece of advice.

farslayer, i shall give you suggestion a try. Appreciated the tips .

On top of that, i started a thread on xgl + compiz + ax1650pro located here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=559329

If you guys happen to know anything about my issue, would you please share some of your thoughts on that?

Thanks guys