Hi,

If you take notice (nvnews, gentoo forum, etc), nvidia 7174 causes many crashes and nobody seems to be able to solve. I have done some observation and from my own experience, 7174 causes hard locks (x freeze but mouse move) in Ubuntu 5.04, Suse 9.3, FreeBSD 5.4 or CURRENT.

My card is Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440.
System:
Abit BE7 P4 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM.

The solution for this lockups is to set RenderAccel false (disabling it). Of course this cause some performance penalty like in font antialiasing.

6629 is very stable at least for my system, although for other nvidia (latest) cards this may not have good performance.

I try to install old archlinux nvidia 6629 package (by googling around) but it does not install.

I tried to install it through tainting kernel but it also failed (it failed too in Suse 9.3).
I even applied the patch (hxxx: --- xxx.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46676), it does not compile in Archlinux (updated to the latest, and using kernel 2.6.11.7 from kernel .org). Although patched 6629 can be compiled and installed in Suse 9.3.

Can I suggest to have package for nvidia 6629 for latest 2.6.11.7 kernel in Archlinux?


Or, can someone tell me some hints on how to create a package for 6629 in arch linux?

TIA
Rgrds,
Jerry

Do you tried the official nVidia linux installer?

It always worked for me:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html

What I do is first shut down the X, and then run the file. It can complain about symlinks from newer versions, you will have to fix them yourself. You will also need to re-run the installer for each kernel you use.

well im facing the same problem, x freezes but, mouse moving.

not sure whats causing this?

any ideas ppl.

thnx

Never had that problem on Slackware and FC3. Have you tried the new updated drivers released a few days ago.

yup. basically i think its the renderAccel that may be the problem.

hey now this is really getting on my nerves, even i installed nvidia from pacman repo im still getting the random lockups where i was able to move the mouse cursor, what should i do now?

any help?

thnx

hello, you know what i can't even install the latest nvidia drivers on arch linux. Any pointers ppl?

thnx

I have installed the latest nVidia driver in my Gentoo, it runs like a charm, I am even playing intensively Vendetta Online right now w/o *any* lockups... I'm doing a very, very graphics intensive gaming and my settinfs are pretty high, as I was indeed trying to see if the new drivers had the bug fixed. Either the bug is fixed or those guys at Vendetta are geniuses (I would say they are kinde kewl, but they use OpenGL and a standar gaming engine, just as any other mortals).

My card is a Geforce FX 5200 w/o a fan, but as I live in a very hot zone (SE Spain) I put a case fan just in front blowing onto my nivida....

So my typ would be:

A) Install the newest nvidia driver...
B) Buy a cheap fan or in case you already have one buy a bigger one.

Please tell us which card you have, as there indeed are some problems with some older cards (older as my Geforce).

ok mine is GeForce 440 MX AGP8x.

First try the *newest* drivers, as it has some issues fixed, get it
directly from the link below:
[url=http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7667/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-766NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run[/url]7-pkg1.run]

Your hardware is officially supported, and it doesn't present any special issues.

Try deactivating renderaccel to see if this causes the problem.
The original (already solved) bug was caused by the drivers overclocking the hardware in some way and causing it to overheat. This issue was reported in Linux and Win drivers of the early 7x series and the solution has been downgrading to the 6x series, until the recent 766x drivers where released, both 7664 and 7667 doesn't present that overheating problem.

The infamous 'pci_badness' bug, the one which freezes the GUI but let the mouse move, is this one and the only solution is down- or upgrading drivers, no other tweaks work, neither in the kernel nor in the X.