Bug 88360 (nvidiadvi)
| Summary: | NV driver does not work with DFP displays very well | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Thomas J. Baker <tjb> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | bstretch, bubbob, bugzilla-rh, byrde, codepilot, deacon_jsg, gino.rossen, hansjuerg.wenger, harrisl, hitman1, jerone2, parf, persteinar.iversen, pr0gram, redhat2008, rjgebis, steven.moix |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | MoveUpstream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133 | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-06-24 16:20:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Please report this problem directly to XFree86.org so that the "nv" driver maintainer whom is an Nvidia employee can investigate this matter. Red Hat does not have the technical specifications for Nvidia video hardware as they do not make them available, so it is not possible for us to implement features in the "nv" driver, nor fix most bugs in the driver either. You can report this problem at: http://bugs.xfree86.org If you find a solution, or patch, please attach it to this bug report and we can investigate adding it to a future build. Thanks. Here's what I got from XFree and adding both options worked for me. ------- Additional Comments From Mark Vojkovich 2003-04-10 17:15 ------- 4.3 works, it just doesn't autodetect which head it's on very well. You may need to explicitly tell the driver to use the second output with: Option "CrtcNumber" "1" That's usually enough, but it might possibly also need Option "FlatPanel". From what I've seen if the DVI connector is hooked up to the second output you just need the CrtcNumber hint. For completeness, here's the XFree bugzilla bug: http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133 *** Bug 98110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** It seems many people are reporting the "nv" driver doesn't work well with DVI panels, so I'm making this report the master bug tracker to close duplicates against for the future. Hopefully Nvidia will spend time working on improving DVI support in the "nv" driver for XFree86 4.4.0. If so, we can investigate the possibility of back porting the driver to 4.3.0 for future erratum. *** Bug 80581 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 84123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 84656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 84775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 84834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 89472 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 105756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 108469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 109487 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 110416 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I downloaded Nividia's 4496 build driver and installed it on Fedora Core 1. The digital connection via DVI worked pretty well. *** Bug 111173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Allegedly, XFree86 4.4.0 once released, will support Nvidia DVI much more completely. I've investigated the code briefly to see if I could do a wholesale "nv" driver update, but the driver has undergone major rewriting and reformatting, so it isn't easy to isolate changes. Once 4.4.0 is released however, and integrated into the distribution, users should hopefully see better DFP support. I'll update this bug report once I've got packages in rawhide, if I remember. ;o) *** Bug 111408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 112983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 115506 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 115636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 109263 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 112112 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** The 'nv' driver present in X.Org X11R6.7.0 in Fedora Core 2 contains support for DFP display types. Changing status to resolved in 'CURRENTRELEASE'. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: I have a Dell Precision 650N (3.0GHz P4 x 2) with an NVidia Quadro4 900 XGL card and a Dell 2000FP Flat Panel monitor. Using the digital connections, the nv driver doesn't work (screen flashed pink blinking squares). If I use the analog input to the 2000FP, it works fine. Here's an lspci on the card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25GL [Quadro4 900 XGL] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0138 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at eff80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K] Expansion ROM at c1000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to start X using the DVI out of the card connected to the DVI in of the monitor. 2. 3. Actual Results: Pink flashing blocks. Expected Results: X should work. Additional info: I can provide any more info you need. The only reason I learned of the work around is because NVidia's drivers lockup problems with SMP and DVI.