Nvidia PCI card working but not listed???

Medic6666 · 07-27-2003, 08:03 AM

/me cringes

Afraid so

Medic6666 · 07-27-2003, 08:08 AM

heres my XF86Config - Well the bit for the graphics/screen

And also the Display/properties.

http://www.mysite123.co.uk/temp/snaps.html

Aussie · 07-27-2003, 08:13 AM

It seems to have an AGP slot (the brown slot closest to the cpu slot), some motherboards with intergrated video and an agp video slot will default to agp if a card is detected at boot, do you have access to one that you can use for a test?

Medic6666 · 07-27-2003, 08:18 AM

no agp. Its a modem slot.

Medic6666 · 07-27-2003, 08:41 AM

Check my link now and I have added a PCI control panel snap.

I have noticed that my PCI card has a IRQ9 and so does the onboard. Is there a way to stop this?

also how do I find out the BusID for the pci card. Though I might be able to add BusID "PCI:?:?:?" to the XFree86

what do you reconn?

Medic6666

danny_kurniawan · 07-27-2003, 01:52 PM

Whoops... i guess that's the problem. You can't have 2 device sharing IRQ... I don't know how to fix this up, but I think you have to find a way to change those IRQ. IRQ can be set using software these days, if your BIOS support it, then you will likely have such "PnP OS" option at BIOS, just check yours. I don't really know about how to set dynamic IRQ from Linux, Windows have it on Device manager when you assign the IRQ manually... Is there anyone knows how?

Medic6666 · 07-27-2003, 02:48 PM

have devices sharing IRQs. the problem is that Linux sees the onboard as the graphics devices on IRQ9 and then sees the PCI card so it uses the onboard first.

The annoying thing is the card does work. Its the whole memory option that is causing the problem.

I have now added BusID "PCI:1:0:0" to the XF86Config file and things seem to be a bit more stable.

So I am going to try and see if this holds it steady for a while.

watch this space.

Cheers

Medic6666

Lim45 · 07-27-2003, 05:58 PM

Are you sure there's nothing you can change in the bios? I used to have a machine based around a similar MSI board, and I remember fitting a pci TNT2 card (okay, okay, I thought it was great at the time!) without too much trouble.

I seem to recall a setting in the bios under "integrated peripherals", and changing the "init display first" from agp to pci. I was even able to free up a whole 8mb of ram...

Medic6666 · 07-27-2003, 06:03 PM

There is no where on the board to change the init display. There is also no AGP on this board.

There must be a way to set this up so that both are installed and I can choose which one to use.

Its really odd that the PCI card works and X starts, but the moment I try and do anything GFX Memory heavy the whole things locks.

Also.. the adding BusID did not help either.
I'm at work tomorrow but any help will be looked at when I get home.

Cheers

Medic6666

Lim45 · 07-27-2003, 06:13 PM

Ah, well. Just a thought. There was no AGP on my board either, by the way, but that's the way MSI described the on-board graphics.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Medic6666 · 07-29-2003, 03:58 PM

There was a BIOS update that allowed me to turn off the onboard chip, but it was not on the manufacs site. I had to get it from a 3rd party.

I have now also installed the latest nvidia drivers and added.

RenderAccel 0

to the XF86Config and it still crashes.

It only seems to do it after a couple of large windows/pics as though its losing memory. Is there a log to check when it crashes??

cheers

Medic6666

Aussie · 07-29-2003, 05:17 PM

Yes, look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, you can also increase the verbosity of the log - have a look at the XFree86 docs for more information.

Medic6666 · 08-02-2003, 05:41 AM

I have checked my logs and cannot find anything wrong.

I have been doing some testing and it only happens with web browsers.

I had open office open with lots of documents and could'nt get it to lock.

I have now added to the following link the 2 Xfree86 logs and also the nvidia-installer log.

http://www.mysite123.co.uk/temp/logs.html

any ideas?

Cheers

Medic6666