Mandrake 9.1 NVIDIA GeForce 3 Problems

[fatshady]

I am trying to intsall the GeForce 3 drivers for my brother PC. It woks, but there is a very long delay (~10 mins) when booting. The computer sits with a black screen, and then loads.

Anyone had a similar problem? With the same driver (off the same CD) my TNT works fine, with a delay (5 secs) due to an old processor.

I followed the instructions exactly as described in the file, and i have done it 5 or 6 times the same way, but this is the first problem i hvae come across.

The PC is an XP2000, 512MB rAM, 60 Gb disk.

Any thoughts?

TIA

Dan

[mdwatts]

A delay between starting in runlevel 5 and the desktop appearing or the entire boot process?

See if anything in

http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1217.geforce.html

helps.

[fatshady]

Thanks for that.. I'll look it over...

The delay comes in where i would normaly expect the desktop to start loading. It loads a xine module after SSHD, and webmin etc i think, and then goes off to load the desktop, and that is when the delay happens.

Sorry if this is a bit sketchy - i do not have the machine in front of me, and my bro' understands little at the mo' - he is trying it out in comparison with Win2K after i suggested it to him..

[mdwatts]

Try removing those modules (xine etc.) one at a time to see if one of them is causing the delay.

[fatshady]

OK - I'll give that a crack, and see how it gets on...

The odd thing is that is does work fine with the driver set to nv, and not nvidia...

I'll have a look and report back...

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by fatshady

The odd thing is that is does work fine with the driver set to nv, and not nvidia...



I didn't know that.

You could try my suggestion though I doubt it will help.

Have a look through your X logfile (when using the nvidia driver) for any problems.

grep EE /var/log/XFree86.0.log

[bwkaz]

Y'know, it's amazing. From the nVidia README (available here (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4363/README.txt) :D), the Frequently Asked Questions section:

Q: X takes a long time to start. What can I do?

A: Most of the startx delay problems we have found are caused by incorrect
data in video BIOSes about what display devices are possibly connected
or what i2c port should be used for detection. You can work around
these problems with the XF86Config option "IgnoreDisplayDevices"
(please see the description in (app-d) APPENDIX D: XF86CONFIG OPTIONS). I trust that answers your question?

[mdwatts]

Read the README. Who would have thought? :D

[fatshady]

Sorry guys... my skim reading skills aren't what they used to be... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

But thanks for pointing me in the right direction... :)