Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 30831
X hangs when beacuse agpgart is no loaded properly with, i815 chipset with Nvidia Geforce external graphic card
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-0.1.19 i686) When I am using Nvdia driver 0.9-6 it can not run with i815 chipset. But when I start linux with linux single and modprobe agpgart, I can run XFree86 with opengl hw. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start the machine without modprobe agpgart and X hangs 2. 3. Actual Results: X hangs. Expected Results: I would expect X to run I have a DELL with i815 mothercard from intel, nvidia geforce 2 gts. My system work perfectly with linux-2.4.2-ac10 without any trouble. I have here not compile in 810 agp support but i815/440BX etc support
This should be fixed in the next XFree86 build, although we do not support the nVidia drivers.
The agpgart thing is fixed now, and as an added bonus - Mark Vojcovich just updated the XFree86 nvidia drivers for 4.0.2 quite a bit fixing lots of outstanding issues with these cards. I will be incorporating these into a build RSN. Hopefully nvidia cards won't be left in the dark anymore. For the agpgart fix, get XFree86-4.0.2-11.4.0 from: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/xfree86
Agpgart fix does not cause agpgart to load when using Nvidia driver 0.9-6. Perhap you should add modprobe agpgart to startup script to force agpgart to load. I made Nvidia 0.9-6 to load by insertin /sbin/modprobe agpgart in statup script. I think Redhat should include Nvidia 0.9-6 in RedHat 7.1 to enable 3D hw support with Nvidia.
Absolutely not - on all counts. I personally don't care if the proprietary Nvidia driver works at all. If I could, I would build the X server to not allow separate binary modules to be loaded at all. Why? Because I cannot in any way shape or form do anything to fix nvidia's binary driver as I do not have source. Since I do not have source, and can not fix bugs in it, I don't care about the bugs period. Email nvidia for support for their bugs. As for agpgart not loading on this driver, all I can say is "use the Xfree86 nv driver". It is XFree's job to load agpgart, and it is currently doing so perfectly on all test systems using open source drivers, so as far as I'm concerned, the nvidia proprietary driver is buggy, and the fix is up to them. Fortunately, as I stated in my last comment, Mark from nvidia has updated the nv opensource driver to fix a bunch of bugs. This is cool, and I will be adding this stuff in very soon. Hopefully it fixes any trouble, if not, then all nvidia users will have to wait until nvidia does in fact fix the bugs. Mark is a good guy, and was recently hired there, so perhaps this is a good sign that nvidia might be waking up to smell the maple nut crunch. In general however, my advice to nvidia owners that have problems with the nv driver, and the nvidia driver, is "buy an ATI Radeon, they smoke." ;o)