Re: [gentoo-amd64] problem with X configuration

[NY Kwok]

Note that the nv driver is great for 2D but runs 3D in software mode. 
Will not give you good opengl performance, if that's what you're after. 
Otherwise, it's really good.
On 23/02/2005, at 11:21 PM, Robert Longbottom wrote:

Hmm, it seems a bit odd that agp should be disabled, but I wouldn't 
expect
that to stop it working althogether, just cause a bit of a slowdown.

You might like to try changing nv back to nvidia and starting X again.
you should be able to check the X log file which is usually in
/var/log/xorg.log (or thereabouts).  There may be some failure messages
that point to the problem that the nvidia drivers are having
Robert.
On Wed, February 23, 2005 12:13 pm, Mark Creamer said:
Here's my output of same:
bash-2.05b$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia               4052892  0
bash-2.05b$ dmesg|grep -i nvidia
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-6629  Wed 
Nov
3
11:43:48 PST 2004

bash-2.05b$ dmesg|grep -i agpgart
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 1919M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
bash-2.05b$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
Model:           GeForce FX 5700LE
IRQ:             225
Video BIOS:      ??.??.??.??.??
Card Type:       AGP
bash-2.05b$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Disabled
bash-2.05b$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge:     VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host 
Bridge
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000a1b:0x00000000
bash-2.05b$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000e1b:0x00000000

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:05 am, Robert Longbottom wrote:
On Wed, February 23, 2005 11:54 am, Mark Creamer said:
I corrected the monitor specs first, rebooted. No change. Then I
changed
the
driver to nv as Barry suggested, and resolution settings look great.
Now,
do
I leave it that way? I want to make sure I'm getting the full
performance
out
of my nvidia card.
It's a e-GeForce FX 5700LE, 256MB DDR AGP
in my xorg.conf, I notice that the line Boardname is "Unknown 
Board".
Does that matter, or is it just informational?

Thanks
I'm sure you've already checked this, but you do have the nvidia 
kernel
module loaded correctly don't you?  check the output of lsmod if 
you're
not sure.

Also, there should be some messages in dmesg when the driver loads 
(try
'dmesg |grep -i nvidia') and also about agpgart, I think these appear
when
Xorg starts (dmesg|grep -i agpgart)

Also, you can check the contents of /proc/driver/nvidia/ once the 
module
has been loaded - it should give you some info about what type of 
card
it
thinks you have and whether or not AGP is working and what method it 
is
using,etc ,etc.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ dmesg|grep -i nvidia
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-6629  Wed
Nov
3 11:43:48 PST 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ dmesg|grep -i agpgart
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
Model:           GeForce FX 5200
IRQ:             16
Video BIOS:      04.34.20.16.00
Card Type:       AGP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Enabled
Driver:          AGPGART
AGP Rate:        8x
Fast Writes:     Disabled
SBA:             Enabled
[EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge:     PCI device 1106:0282 (VIA Technologies, Inc.)
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x
Registers:       0x1f000a1a:0x00000b02
[EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000e1b:0x1f000302


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