thanx for the responses to my query yesterday (repeated below). i also had a look at the Nvidia Linux forum, which was depressing: 12 screens of msgs revealed 3 - 4 users w my problem (or close), but no-one w any clue what mb wrong! based on that & better help here, i've tried some things out as systematically as i cd.
(1) 'modprobe nvidia' does seem to make some difference: it creates the /dev & /proc/driver/nvidia entries, but can cause a problem if 'Option "NvAGP" "n"' has an inappropriate value. (2) leaving the 'nv' driver in XF86Config simply ignores the Nvidia stuff. (3) adding 'mem=nopentium' to the boot line in Lilo achieves nothing: this was mentioned twice (at least) on the hopeless N-L forum. (4) changing BIOS settings made no difference: i have a Soyo Dragon Ultra, which allows increasing the 'AGP driving value' & enabling 'DBI output for AGP trans' w an 8x card like mine (at least nothing blew up). (5) setting 'Option "NvAGP" "2"' in XF86Config got a line in the log file 'failed to verify AGP usage' (i kept all the X log files, properly numbered). (6) setting that to "0" or omitting it while not issuing 'modprobe nvidia' got furthest & allowed me to get a vivid picture of what's happening: w both KDE (a session w lots running) & XFCE (my everyday preference), i was able to get 'top' started, enter 'P' (to order by CPU use) & also get Gkrellm going: X is fluctuating wildly every few seconds -- varying 0 - 30 - 99 % CPU -- , while 'eth0' is also doing a lot (?!): on XFCE i had nothing else running (KDE had a number of things), but Eth0, wh sb the mobo I/net connection, was fluctuating too & roughly at those times when the CPU was quiet. however, after a couple of minutes both stalled, presumably w CPU = 100 % . so does anyone have any further thoughts or suggestions ? i've got adequate 3D rendering, eg for Xscreensaver, via CPU & software, but it does heat up the CPU, wh i'ld rather avoid. is there any hope that things mt improve w the arrival of production 2.6 ? 031206 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've been trying to get hardware graphics acceleration working. > i've read the dox & looked at the more obvious things (i hope). > my graphics card is 'GeForce4 MX440 w AGP 8x'. > i tried using Gentoo's emerges 'nvidia-kernel' & 'nvidia-glx'; > in XF86Config, i commented 'load "dri"' & changed to 'Driver "nvidia"'; > i also did 'opengl-update nvidia' & 'modprobe nvidia'. > 'startx' started KDE, but once started it became very slow, then stopped. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
