Bug 18844
| Summary: | XFree86 / Xconfigurator bails on nVidia GeForce2/MX; can't compile kernel for AGP support | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | mr |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0J | CC: | duchida |
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-02-08 04:57:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Our group at Stanford has done a whole lot experimenting with NVIDIA cards and XFree4, and it seems that the "nvidia" driver that comes with XFree 4.0 doesn't support/detect anything *later* than the GeForce (i.e., your card). We have had good success with NVIDIA's drivers (i.e., the ones from nvidia.com), although they're still working on releasing RPM's for RH 7.0. Thanks for the feedback! Someone suggested that I modify /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.o at offset 0x10F1 it reads 50,01,DE,10 (PCI Vendor 0x10DE=NVidia, Device 0x0150=GeForce 2 GTS) Modify in 10,01,DE,10 (PCI Vendor 0x10DE=NVidia, Device 0x0110=GeForce 2 MX) And do the same at offset 0x8BAC, 0x8C34 and 0x8C38. How do I do this? I realize it's not a "supported" technique, but I have heard that it works. It changes the GeForce 2 GTS ID to the GeForce 2 MX ID, so the GTS will not work with the modified driver. The person suggesting it used this "trick" with XFree86 3.3.6 (RedHat 6.2) with an ASUS V7700 Deluxe (Changed Quadro ID to GeForce 2 GTS ID) for quite a while without any problems! Thanks! --Michael Regoli (mr) Nvidia has released new rpm's for the GeForce 2/MX series of cards that work fine although they seem to have some problems with Redhat 7.09 (Fisher) release. Nvidia has released new rpm's for the GeForce 2/MX series of cards that work fine although they seem to have some problems with Redhat 7.09 (Fisher) release. |
Hello! Couple things. First, the bare-bones Redhat 7, out of the box, fresh install, misses configuring an nVidia GeForce 2/MX AGP video card (w/32mb). (The motherboard is an Asus A7V/no audio.) However, it *does* correctly probe its type: PCI probing found a: PCI Entry : nVidia Corporation|NV11 X Server : None XFree4 driver : nv Note the disconcerting "X Server: None". XConfigurator can't recover. It can't probe, and fails ("there was an error executing the X server in a probin mode"). Here are relevant excerpts from the postmortem left in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: XFree86 Version 4.0.1a / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 2 August 2000 Operating System: Linux 2.2.5-22smp i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue Oct 10 13:09:35 2000 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" ... ... (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1a, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.1 (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVATNT, RIVATNT2, RIVATNT2 (Ultra), RIVATNT2 (Vanta), RIVATNT2 M64, RIVATNT2 (Integrated), GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce 2 (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found -- I then remembered that I could compile support for AGP into the kernel. So these are defined in /usr/src/linux/.config: # CONFIG_I2C is not set CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y CONFIG_AGP_I810=y CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD=y CONFIG_AGP_SIS=y CONFIG_AGP_ALI=y # CONFIG_DRM is not set a "make dep; make clean" is performed after the "make config." Then a "make install" bombs on the AGP section (ar: agp/agpgart.o: No such file or directory): [root@micron linux]# make install kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-s trict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DUTS_MACHINE='"i386"' -c -o init/version.o init/version.c make -C kernel make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel' make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel' make -C drivers make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers' make -C block make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/block' make all_targets make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/block' make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/block' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/block' make -C char make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/char' make -C agp make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/char/agp' make all_targets make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/char/agp' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all_targets'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/char/agp' make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/char/agp' make all_targets make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/char' rm -f char.a ar rcs char.a pty.o misc.o console.o selection.o serial.o keyboard.o sysrq.o tty_io.o n_tty.o tty_i octl.o mem.o random.o raw.o vt.o vc_screen.o consolemap.o consolemap_deftbl.o pc_keyb.o defkeymap.o lp.o rtc.o agp/agpgart.o ar: agp/agpgart.o: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [char.a] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/char' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/char' make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers' make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 Now what? --Michael Regoli mr