[gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes 
Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use
newer nvidia drivers.

Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into
this text file.

I sure would appreciate some input!

http://fire-eyes.org/temp/badness.txt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Fish 
On 12/9/05, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use
 newer nvidia drivers.

 Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into
 this text file.

 I sure would appreciate some input!

Well, I don't use the nvidia driver, so I'm certainly no expert here, but:

(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode 896x672 (height 1344 is larger than
(WW) NVIDIA(0):  EDID-specified maximum 1200)

and:

Section Device
snip
Option  UseEdidFreqs on
#Option UseEdidFreqs off
#Option IgnoreEDID 1
#Option UseEdidDpi DFP-0

What happens if you play with these EDID options?  Particularly, the
UseEdidFreqs looks like a likely candiate to be disabled.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes 
Richard Fish wrote:
 On 12/9/05, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use
newer nvidia drivers.

Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into
this text file.

I sure would appreciate some input!
 
 
 Well, I don't use the nvidia driver, so I'm certainly no expert here, but:
 
 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode 896x672 (height 1344 is larger than
 (WW) NVIDIA(0):  EDID-specified maximum 1200)
 
 and:
 
 Section Device
 snip
 OptionUseEdidFreqs on
 #Option   UseEdidFreqs off
 #Option   IgnoreEDID 1
 #Option   UseEdidDpi DFP-0
 
 What happens if you play with these EDID options?  Particularly, the
 UseEdidFreqs looks like a likely candiate to be disabled.
 
 -Richard
 


I have messed with them (hence the comments), no change. Those EDID
maxes are surely bogus, I have run 2048x1536 (real, not virtual) on this
before no problems, within spec. Only with the newer driver does it
complain. Even if i tell it to ignore EDID.

Thank you for the reply :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread Bob Sanders 
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:43:45 -0500
fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use
 newer nvidia drivers.
 

The newer Nvidia drivers have a tighter spec on speeds.  They also now need
mode lines for, as I recall, resolutions above 1280x1024.

Also, as your monitor is one of those that has a flakey EDID (from reading your 
log),
any edid setting will get ignored.

The drivers do work, in most cases[1].  I'm running at 1920x1200 on 8174-r1.  
But
that is with a mode line.  I still get occasional system hangs on my 2P amd64 
system
while playing ut2004.  But I think that may have to do with threads and audio.

Bob

[1] An SGI FP1600SW with an Nvidia 6xxx card at 1600x1024 is a case where none
 of the drivers work, even with mode lines.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

2005-12-09 Thread fire-eyes 
Bob Sanders wrote:
 On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:43:45 -0500
 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use
newer nvidia drivers.

 
 
 The newer Nvidia drivers have a tighter spec on speeds.  They also now need
 mode lines for, as I recall, resolutions above 1280x1024.
 
 Also, as your monitor is one of those that has a flakey EDID (from reading 
 your log),
 any edid setting will get ignored.
 
 The drivers do work, in most cases[1].  I'm running at 1920x1200 on 8174-r1.  
 But
 that is with a mode line.  I still get occasional system hangs on my 2P amd64 
 system
 while playing ut2004.  But I think that may have to do with threads and audio.
 
 Bob
 
 [1] An SGI FP1600SW with an Nvidia 6xxx card at 1600x1024 is a case where none
  of the drivers work, even with mode lines.
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Okay, thanks for the information. It's been so long since I created
modelines, I don't even remember how :)
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