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Old 11-25-2007, 08:43 AM   #1
moistTowelette
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NVIDIA Driver not coming to the party

Hi,

I have a laptop with GeForce 420 GO graphics and am running Debian Lenny. Everything works fine, except for the NVIDIA graphics driver which I downloaded from the NVIDIA website and installed successfully. After installation, everything appears to work properly but 3 tell-tale signs seem to indicate that the driver is not actually working:

1) There is no 'NVIDIA' splash logo when X starts up
2) GLXGears runs slow and clunky
3) Scrolling within websites with a lot of graphics is very slow

I have previously used the same driver on the same machine with Debian Etch and didn't have any of the above issues.

Here is my xorg.conf:

Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
    InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "Files"

        # path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
    Option         "AccelFactor" "0.2"
    Option         "MinSpeed" "0.4"
    Option         "MaxSpeed" "1.5"
    Option         "FingerLow" "5"
    Option         "FingerHigh" "25"
    Option         "TapButton2" "3"
    Option         "TapButton3" "2"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 64.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 60.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M]"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    Option         "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
    DefaultDepth    16
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1280x854"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1280x854"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1280x854"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1280x854"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1280x854"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x854"
    EndSubSection
EndSection
...and here is the relevant output from 'lsmod':

Code:
# lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia               4712980  22 
i2c_core               23552  3 nvidia,i2c_ali1535,i2c_ali15x3
agpgart                31912  2 nvidia,ali_agp
Anyone know what might be going on?
 
Old 11-25-2007, 09:18 AM   #2
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try adding module GLcore under the module section
 
Old 11-25-2007, 11:01 AM   #3
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Okay I did a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and changed the default depth to 24 bit - that gave me the NVIDIA logo when X starts up, but GLXGears still runs horribly slow and there doesn't seem to be any graphics acceleration. After running the reconfigure script, my xorg.conf now looks like this:

Code:
Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
        Option          "AccelFactor" "0.2"
        Option          "MinSpeed" "0.4"
        Option          "MaxSpeed" "1.5"
        Option          "FingerLow" "5"
        Option          "FingerHigh" "25"
        Option          "TapButton2" "3"
        Option          "TapButton3" "2"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M]"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
        Option          "DPMS"
        HorizSync       30-70
        VertRefresh     50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M]"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        Option          "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Modes           "1280x854"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
        InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
whansard - When I add 'load glcore' to xorg.conf, I get an error saying that the module cannot be found and after searching for this error there is a concensus that glcore should not be loaded explicitly.

What do I need to get 3d acceleration? Am I missing a different module?
 
Old 11-25-2007, 11:27 AM   #4
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[solved]
Here's what I did:

1) Set default depth to 24
2) Remove package 'libgl1-mesa-glx'
3) Reinstall NVIDIA drivers

Now when I type 'glxinfo | grep vendor', I get 3 lines containing NVIDIA rather than 2 lines containing NVIDIA and once containint MESA. More importantly, GLX works brilliantly.
 
  


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