Dear Linux Gurus,

I am trying to get my PC up and running with Mandrake 9.1

A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon XP 2500+
GeforceFX 5200 - Asus
Kingstion 512 PC2700
Seagate Sata 80Mb

I updated the XF86Config-4 like:
Section "Device"
Identification "Device1"
VendorName "nvidia Corporation"
BoardName "nvidia Geforce 2 DDR (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
End of Section

I read in a file, that I should do the editing not from the graphic environment, so I told Mandrake not to boot into the graphical environment. And I did the changes, and then booted, and when I type startx or X the only thing I get is the nvidia splash screem, then the background image of gnome, and it brings me back to the non-graphical environment and asks for login.

How can I get the X to run properly?

Thanks!

Is there an error message or anything that could help us?

Could you copy and paste the content of the XFree86 log file which is in /var/log/?

Hi!

I thought it to be too large. But I guess you have to see all of it. So enjoy!

Thanks!
Salvador

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XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 12 March 2003
Module Loader present
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue Jul 23 11:48:43 2002
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
(==) ServerLayout "layout1"
(**) |-->Screen "screen1" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "monitor1"
(**) | |-->Device "Device1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(WW) Option "XkbCompat" requires an string value
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) XKB: model: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "es"
(**) XKB: layout: "es"
(WW) Option "XkbOptions" requires an string value
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
Using vt 7
(--) using VT number 7
(II) Open APM successful
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
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 4.3.0, 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 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8000300c, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 10de,01e0 card 1043,80ac rev c1 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:00:1: chip 10de,01eb card 10de,0c17 rev c1 class 05,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:00:2: chip 10de,01ee card 10de,0c17 rev c1 class 05,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:00:3: chip 10de,01ed card 10de,0c17 rev c1 class 05,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:00:4: chip 10de,01ec card 10de,0c17 rev c1 class 05,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:00:5: chip 10de,01ef card 10de,0c17 rev c1 class 05,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 10de,0060 card 1043,80ad rev a4 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:01:1: chip 10de,0064 card 1043,0c11 rev a2 class 0c,05,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 10de,0067 card 1043,0c11 rev a4 class 0c,03,10 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:1: chip 10de,0067 card 1043,0c11 rev a4 class 0c,03,10 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:2: chip 10de,0068 card 1043,0c11 rev a4 class 0c,03,20 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:04:0: chip 10de,0066 card 1043,80a7 rev a1 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:05:0: chip 10de,006b card 1043,0c11 rev a2 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:06:0: chip 10de,006a card 1043,8095 rev a1 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:08:0: chip 10de,006c card 0000,0000 rev a3 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:09:0: chip 10de,0065 card 1043,0c11 rev a2 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:0c:0: chip 10de,006d card 0000,0000 rev a3 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 10de,01e8 card 0000,0000 rev c1 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 01:0b:0: chip 1095,3112 card 1095,6112 rev 02 class 01,04,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:01:0: chip 10b7,9201 card 1043,80ab rev 40 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 03:00:0: chip 10de,0322 card 1043,80cf rev a1 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,3), 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-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:8:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0002 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 1 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x00009000 - 0x0000afff (0x2000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xe4000000 - 0xe5ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 2: bridge is at (0:12:0), (0,2,2), BCTRL: 0x0002 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 2 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000bfff (0x1000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 2 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe1ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 3: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,3,3), BCTRL: 0x000a (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 3 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B]
(II) Bus 3 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B]
(--) PCI:*(3:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x0322) rev 161, Mem @ 0xe2000000/24, 0xd8000000/27
(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 0xd0000000 from 0xd7ffffff to 0xcfffffff
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xe1000000 - 0xe100007f (0x80) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0xe5000000 - 0xe50001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0xe6080000 - 0xe6080fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0xe6000000 - 0xe607ffff (0x80000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xe6083000 - 0xe6083fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xe6082000 - 0xe60820ff (0x100) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xe6081000 - 0xe6081fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xe6084000 - 0xe6084fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[9] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[10] -1 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[11] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b07f (0x80) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a00f (0x10) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x00009c00 - 0x00009c03 (0x4) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009807 (0x8) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x00009403 (0x4) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x0000c400 - 0x0000c47f (0x80) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc07 (0x8) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x0000c800 - 0x0000c81f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
[0] -1 0 0xe1000000 - 0xe100007f (0x80) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0xe5000000 - 0xe50001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0xe6080000 - 0xe6080fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0xe6000000 - 0xe607ffff (0x80000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xe6083000 - 0xe6083fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xe6082000 - 0xe60820ff (0x100) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xe6081000 - 0xe6081fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xe6084000 - 0xe6084fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[9] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[10] -1 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[11] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b07f (0x80) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a00f (0x10) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x00009c00 - 0x00009c03 (0x4) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009807 (0x8) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x00009403 (0x4) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x0000c400 - 0x0000c47f (0x80) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc07 (0x8) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x0000c800 - 0x0000c81f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
[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) All system 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 0xe1000000 - 0xe100007f (0x80) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xe5000000 - 0xe50001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xe6080000 - 0xe6080fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xe6000000 - 0xe607ffff (0x80000) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0xe6083000 - 0xe6083fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[10] -1 0 0xe6082000 - 0xe60820ff (0x100) MX[B]
[11] -1 0 0xe6081000 - 0xe6081fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[12] -1 0 0xe6084000 - 0xe6084fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[13] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[14] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[15] -1 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[16] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b07f (0x80) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a00f (0x10) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x00009c00 - 0x00009c03 (0x4) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009807 (0x8) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x00009403 (0x4) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
[25] -1 0 0x0000c400 - 0x0000c47f (0x80) IX[B]
[26] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[27] -1 0 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc07 (0x8) IX[B]
[28] -1 0 0x0000c800 - 0x0000c81f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a
(II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, 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: "v4l"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/linux/v4l_drv.o
(II) Module v4l: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.0.1
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
(II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, 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 XFree86-DGA
(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 4.3.0, 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"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 2.0.2
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.4363
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(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 = 1.0.4363
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 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) v4l driver for Video4Linux
(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-4363 Sat Apr 19 17:49:42 PDT 2003
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 03:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
[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 0xe1000000 - 0xe100007f (0x80) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xe5000000 - 0xe50001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xe6080000 - 0xe6080fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xe6000000 - 0xe607ffff (0x80000) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0xe6083000 - 0xe6083fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[10] -1 0 0xe6082000 - 0xe60820ff (0x100) MX[B]
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[11] -1 0 0xe6081000 - 0xe6081fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[12] -1 0 0xe6084000 - 0xe6084fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[13] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[14] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[15] -1 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[16] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b07f (0x80) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a00f (0x10) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x00009c00 - 0x00009c03 (0x4) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009807 (0x8) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x00009403 (0x4) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
[25] -1 0 0x0000c400 - 0x0000c47f (0x80) IX[B]
[26] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[27] -1 0 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc07 (0x8) IX[B]
[28] -1 0 0x0000c800 - 0x0000c81f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) resource ranges after probing:
[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 0xe1000000 - 0xe100007f (0x80) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xe5000000 - 0xe50001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xe6080000 - 0xe6080fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xe6000000 - 0xe607ffff (0x80000) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0xe6083000 - 0xe6083fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[10] -1 0 0xe6082000 - 0xe60820ff (0x100) MX[B]
[11] -1 0 0xe6081000 - 0xe6081fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[12] -1 0 0xe6084000 - 0xe6084fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[13] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[14] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[15] -1 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[16] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B]
[17] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B]
[18] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b07f (0x80) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a00f (0x10) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x00009c00 - 0x00009c03 (0x4) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009807 (0x8) IX[B]
[25] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x00009403 (0x4) IX[B]
[26] -1 0 0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[B]
[27] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
[28] -1 0 0x0000c400 - 0x0000c47f (0x80) IX[B]
[29] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[30] -1 0 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc07 (0x8) IX[B]
[31] -1 0 0x0000c800 - 0x0000c81f (0x20) IX[B]
[32] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B]
[33] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE2000000
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 5200
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.34.20.13.00
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes
(II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): CRT-1
(--) NVIDIA(0): Detected TV Encoder: NVIDIA
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device CRT-1: maximum pixel clock at 8 bpp: 400 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device CRT-1: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 400 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device CRT-1: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 400 MHz
(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
(II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) NVIDIA(0): monitor1: Using hsync range of 30.00-70.00 kHz
(II) NVIDIA(0): monitor1: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-100.00 Hz
(II) NVIDIA(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 400.00 MHz
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (width too large for virtual size)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (width too large for virtual size)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (width too large for virtual size)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1152x864" (width too large for virtual size)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1152x768" (width too large for virtual size)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "700x525" (height 1050 is larger than
(WW) NVIDIA(0): EDID-specified maximum 1024)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "768x576":
(WW) NVIDIA(0): horizontal sync width (846 - 832 = 14) not a multiple of 8
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "576x384":
(WW) NVIDIA(0): horizontal sync start (589) not a multiple of 8
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "360x200":
(WW) NVIDIA(0): horizontal sync start (378) not a multiple of 8
(**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device CRT-1:
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 94.5 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 56.3 MHz, 53.7 kHz, 85.1 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x480": 36.0 MHz, 43.3 kHz, 85.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.1 kHz, 75.1 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 75.0 MHz, 56.5 kHz, 70.1 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "832x624": 57.3 MHz, 49.7 kHz, 74.6 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Mode "1024x480": 65.0 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 85.9 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 49.5 MHz, 46.9 kHz, 75.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 50.0 MHz, 48.1 kHz, 72.2 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 40.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 36.0 MHz, 35.2 kHz, 56.2 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Mode "768x576": 63.1 MHz, 61.6 kHz, 100.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x512": 54.0 MHz, 64.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x480": 31.5 MHz, 37.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x480": 31.5 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 72.8 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x480": 54.0 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "720x400": 35.5 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 85.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x400": 31.5 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 85.1 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "576x432": 54.0 MHz, 67.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x350": 31.5 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 85.1 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "512x384": 47.2 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "512x384": 39.4 MHz, 60.1 kHz, 75.1 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "512x384": 37.5 MHz, 56.5 kHz, 70.1 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "512x384": 32.5 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "416x312": 28.6 MHz, 49.7 kHz, 74.7 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "400x300": 28.1 MHz, 53.7 kHz, 85.3 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "400x300": 24.8 MHz, 46.9 kHz, 75.1 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "400x300": 25.0 MHz, 48.1 kHz, 72.2 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "400x300": 20.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "400x300": 18.0 MHz, 35.2 kHz, 56.3 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "320x240": 18.0 MHz, 43.3 kHz, 85.2 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "320x240": 15.8 MHz, 37.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "320x240": 15.8 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 72.8 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "320x240": 12.6 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.1 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "320x200": 15.8 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 85.3 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "320x175": 15.8 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 85.3 Hz (D)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display dimensions: (320, 240) mm
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (81, 81)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a
(II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
(II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libramdac.a
(II) Module ramdac: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] 0 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B]
[1] 0 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[3] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[4] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xe1000000 - 0xe100007f (0x80) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xe5000000 - 0xe50001ff (0x200) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0xe6080000 - 0xe6080fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[10] -1 0 0xe6000000 - 0xe607ffff (0x80000) MX[B]
[11] -1 0 0xe6083000 - 0xe6083fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[12] -1 0 0xe6082000 - 0xe60820ff (0x100) MX[B]
[13] -1 0 0xe6081000 - 0xe6081fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[14] -1 0 0xe6084000 - 0xe6084fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[15] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[16] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[17] -1 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[18] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B](OprD)
[19] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD)
[20] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD)
[21] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b07f (0x80) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a00f (0x10) IX[B]
[25] -1 0 0x00009c00 - 0x00009c03 (0x4) IX[B]
[26] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009807 (0x8) IX[B]
[27] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x00009403 (0x4) IX[B]
[28] -1 0 0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[B]
[29] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
[30] -1 0 0x0000c400 - 0x0000c47f (0x80) IX[B]
[31] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[32] -1 0 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc07 (0x8) IX[B]
[33] -1 0 0x0000c800 - 0x0000c81f (0x20) IX[B]
[34] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B](OprU)
[35] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B](OprU)
(II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 8X successfully initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse1: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
(**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Mouse1: Buttons: 5
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
-------------------------------------------------------

ok, you should go to your bios and change some parameters:

Assign IRQ to VGA=enabled

PnP (Plug and Play) OS installed:disabled.

Come back and tell me!

/su,

Went to the BIOS, but this MB does not have those options...
I changed where the IRQ are assigned manually, but that is all. I have had other MB with exactly those options... but not on this one.

Then tried to run Linux... and got exactly the same thing...
nvidia splash screen, then the small watch that seemt to be starting X, then kicked out to the command line.

Then type startx or X and happens the same... but this time, I stay in a blue screen with the mouse working but no icons or menues to use.

Shall I reinstall everything? Do you recommend a different dtsro for my hardware?

thanks!
salvador.

I use the same video card and I didn't get any problems running mandrake, I suppose then that something in your config is wrong.

I understand with your last message that your X server is working but nothing happens, am I right?

If yes, strike ctrl + alt + F2 at the same time, you'll see another console. Login as user and type ps -u 'username' and tell me what you see.

At first startx boot mandake asks you a few question about the desktop configuration and it sometimes hangs... but I can't remember the name of the process. Must be something with kde in it, but not kde-init..

If you find it, type kill and the pid (number) of the process.

About other distro's, I tried red hat but I found that their packages management was not really understandable and easy to use.. So I tried debian, which is really more difficult to set up with a recent video card like the FX 5200 (kernel compiling, and strange install of kde 3.1.2) but debian seems to be really stable.

That's only my point of view and I don't have enough experience to say which one is the best.. All distro's have their weakpoints and their strenghts.

/su

Hi,

Followed your advice, and got a list of the process running, but no idea which one to kill.

Still stocked in the same step. And since I have done some changes since your last piece of advice... decided to bring full information of the status of my current system.

Here we go:

------Files under /proc/driver/nvidia--------
File Name: ---Card---
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 8x 4x
Registers: 0x1f000e1b:0x00000000

File Name: ---0---
Model: GeForce FX 5200
IRQ: 7
Video BIOS: ??.??.??.??.??
Card Type: AGP

File Name: ---Status---
Status: Disabled

File Name: ---host-bridge---
Host Bridge: PCI device 10de:01e0 (nVidia Corporation)
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 8x 4x
Registers: 0x1f00421b:0x00000000


-----Files under a different directory... not sure where... sorry.---

File Name: --version--
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4363 Sat Apr 19 17:46:46 PDT 2003
GCC version: gcc version 3.2

File Name: --Warnings--
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 131056
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: zone(1): 126960 pages.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb ro root=2105 devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Detected 2088.081 MHz processor.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 4168.08 BogoMIPS
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ stepping 00
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 2088.0649 MHz.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ..... host bus clock speed is 334.0904 MHz.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: cpu: 0, clocks: 3340904, slice: 1670452
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: CPU0<T0:3340896,T1:1670432,D:12,S:1670452,C:3340904>
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Starting kswapd
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hda: AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224 1.06 20030110, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hde: ST380023AS, ATA DISK drive
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ide2 at 0xe0800080-0xe0800087,0xe080008a on irq 11
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hde: host protected area => 1
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usbdevfs: remount parameter error
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x67b/0x2303) is not claimed by any active driver.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc00e) is not claimed by any active driver.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x458/0x7007) is not claimed by any active driver.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Vendor: AOPEN Model: CD-RW CRW5224 Rev: 1.06
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Jul 29 01:10:19 localhost kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jul 29 01:10:19 localhost kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 320 bytes per conntrack
Jul 29 01:10:32 localhost kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4363 Sat Apr 19 17:46:46 PDT 2003
Jul 29 01:10:33 localhost kernel: 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table

File name: ---info---

Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.21-0.13mdk
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Loaded 19673 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.21-0.13mdk.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.21.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Loaded 372 symbols from 25 modules.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: 511MB LOWMEM available.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Memory: 515156k/524224k available (1410k kernel code, 8680k reserved, 1118k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Intel machine check architecture supported.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb490, last bus=3
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at 00:00.0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: NFORCE2: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ide2: MMIO-DMA at 0xe0800000-0xe0800007, BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ide3: MMIO-DMA at 0xe0800008-0xe080000f, BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hde: DMA disabled
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [9729/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 >
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: md: autorun ...
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 47k freed
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0821000, IRQ 5
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: 3 ports detected
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.1 to 64
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0823000, IRQ 12
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.1, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: 3 ports detected
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.2 to 64
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ehci-hcd 00:02.2: PCI device 10de:0068 (nVidia Corporation)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ehci-hcd 00:02.2: irq 11, pci mem e082b000
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: ehci-hcd 00:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2002-Dec-20
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: 6 ports detected
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Adding Swap: 811240k swap-space (priority -1)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-1, assigned address 2
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-2, assigned address 3
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 2
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver serial
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for PL-2303
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usbserial.c: PL-2303 converter detected
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usbserial.c: PL-2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: pl2303.c: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver v0.9
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hid
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb2:3.0
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide2(33,7), internal journal
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Jul 29 01:10:16 localhost kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Jul 29 01:10:17 localhost kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
Jul 29 01:10:17 localhost kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 47422
Jul 29 01:10:33 localhost kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
Jul 29 01:10:33 localhost kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
Jul 29 01:10:33 localhost kernel: agpgart: unsupported bridge
Jul 29 01:10:33 localhost kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found.
Jul 29 01:13:31 localhost kernel: udf: registering filesystem
Jul 29 01:13:32 localhost kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:65:udf_get_last_session: CDROMMULTISESSION not supported: rc=-22
Jul 29 01:13:32 localhost kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1426:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0
Jul 29 01:13:32 localhost kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:415:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors)
Jul 29 01:14:19 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Jul 29 01:14:19 localhost kernel: 02:00: rw=0, want=1442, (=0x5a2), limit=1440

Name file: ---info---
Jul 29 01:10:33 localhost kernel: agpgart: unsupported bridge
Jul 29 01:10:33 localhost kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found.

File Name: ---Status---
Status: Disabled

File Name: --Warnings--
Jul 29 01:10:33 localhost kernel: 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table

File Name: ---XFree86.0.log---
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "agp_try_unsupported=1" is not used


So after this exhaustive overview... do you have any ideas how I can bring back the graphic environment? Perhaps I am still missing a piece of information...

Thanks!
Salvador.

I use Mandrake 9.1 to. We have a similiar setup except for the motherboard. I booted to failsafe and installed the somethingdriver.run file and have been running ever since. It changes the files automatically so it says and you only have to do one file. Maybe I missed something but mine works fine.

Maybe this is a idea for you to try. I'l find it and post the link if you want to try it.

Did you install the Nvidia drivers and make the correct changes to the XF86Config file?

The 'Video Bios :??.??.??.??' doesn't look right.
I got a 5600 and the first thing that comes up when I boot is a screen with the nvidia bios.Thats even before the bios of the motherboard shows up.You might want to try to throw that card in a M$ box and see if it works at all.

Medic6666: I didn't do anything to xf86conf. I did a file search and it didn't find one. My understanding was that you run the script file and that's it. I don't play doom or anything but it works fine I guess. Am I supposed to change something?

with Nvidia drivers you need to edit the XF86Conf file. If you are Running X Windows there must be a XF86Conf file.

I'm using redhat9 and the path for it is: /etc/X11/XF86Conf

Note the upper/lower case.

If you read the install notes it does say this:

(sec-03) EDITING YOUR XF86CONFIG FILE
__________________________________________________________________________

When XFree86 4.0 was released, it used a slightly different XF86Config
file syntax than the 3.x series did, and so to allow both 3.x and 4.x
versions of XFree86 to co-exist on the same system, it was decided that
XFree86 4.x was to use the configuration file "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
if it existed, and only if that file did not exist would the file
"/etc/X11/XF86Config" be used (actually, that is an over-simplification
of the search criteria; please see the XF86Config man page for a complete
description of the search path). Please make sure you know what
configuration file XFree86 is using. If you are in doubt, look for a
line beginning with "(==) Using config file:" in your XFree86 log file
("/var/log/XFree86.0.log"). This README will use "XF86Config" to refer
to your configuration file, whatever it is named.

If you do not have a working XF86Config file, there are several ways
to start: there is a sample config file that comes with XFree86,
and there is a sample config file included with the NVIDIA driver
package (it gets installed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/).
You could also use a program like 'xf86config'; some distributions
provide their own tool for generating an XF86Config file. For more
on XF86Config file syntax, please refer to the man page.

If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver
(such as the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver), then all you need to do is find
the relevant Device section and replace the line:

Driver "nv"
(or Driver "vesa")

with

Driver "nvidia"

In the Module section, make sure you have:

Load "glx"

You should also remove the following lines:

Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"

if they exist. There are also numerous options that can be added to
the XF86Config file to fine-tune the NVIDIA XFree86 driver. Please see
Appendix D for a complete list of these options.

Once you have configured your XF86Config file, you are ready to restart
X and begin using the accelerated OpenGL libraries. After you restart X,
you should be able to run any OpenGL application and it will automatically
use the new NVIDIA libraries. If you encounter any problems, please
see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section below.


Let me know if you have X running without a XF86Conf and i'll check up for ya.


Medic6666