On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:05 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >I have ASUS 9180SE AGP 8x video card 64MB ram (nVidia Corporation NV18 > >[GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] rev 162). I have edited /etc/XF86Config-4 for > > driver as nvidia instead of nv. I get X OK with driver from nvidia site. > > > >But I have following lines in dmesg. > >0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed > >Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003 > >Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann > >agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M > >agpgart: unsupported bridge > >agpgart: no supported devices found. > >0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table > > > > > >I have only following warning lines in /var/log/XFree86.0.log > >(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device CRT-0 > > > >I have problem in playing xine. It shows only some white screen in mdk > > 9.1. Does the above indicate some where > >something is wrong? > > Yes, when using AGP 8X, there is no support for agpgart in the 2.4.x > kernel. Look through the list archives, and you will learn more about > this issue. I, for one, have posted several times about it. There are > some kernel patches out there but most of these seem to be for radeon > cards. If you can switch to AGP 4X by way of the bios, I would strongly > suggest doing so, or you can wait for the support to be in the newer > kernels yet to be released.....
but the same setup works ok and xine plays normal in knoppix 3.2, of course, with fbdev video driver. I changed to 4x also. then also mdk doesn't allow me to play xine. That puzzles me. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
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