Problems with Ge-Force 2

[tonimontanna]

At this time I'm having problems with a Ge-Force 2 MX card. This card has given me fits. I finaly got Nt to accept the card and it's time for Linux. I have followed all of the directions at Nvidia's site and X just keeps crashing when I install the nvidia kernal and GLX. I have also hand edited my
config without success.

I'm posting my X-Config. Hopefully, someone can find a problem other than changing the driver
to nvidia, deleting Load "dri" & "Glcore"

Thanks!


# File generated by anaconda.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Anaconda Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

FontPath "unix/:7100"

EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "pex5"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "pex5"
Load "record"
Load "xie"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"

# Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"

# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
#Option "XkbVariant" ""
#Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 30.0-69.0
VertRefresh 50.0-110.0

# -- 1400x1050 --
# 1400x1050 @ 60Hz, 65.8 kHz hsync
Modeline "1400x1050" 129 1400 1464 1656 1960
1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync

# 1400x1050 @ 70Hz, 76.8 kHz hsync
Modeline "1400x1050" 151 1400 1464 1656 1960
1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync

# 1400x1050 @ 75Hz, 82.3 kHz hsync
Modeline "1400x1050" 162 1400 1464 1656 1960
1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync

# 1400x1050 @ 85Hz, 93.2 kHz hsync
Modeline "1400x1050" 184 1400 1464 1656 1960
1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync

EndSection

Section "Device"
# no known options
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 2 (generic)"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 (generic)"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 (generic)"

#BusID
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce 2 (generic)"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
EndSubsection

EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSectio

[tonimontanna]

There is a new little twist that needs to be added. When I installed the Nvidia Kernal via RPM. It stated that no driver was found.

I'm clueless at this point?

:eek: :mad: :eek:

[ethereal]

Err, did you delete the old mesa files?

rm /usr/lib/libGL*
rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so*

do that before installing nVidia's GLX.

[ 06 July 2001: Message edited by: ethereal ]

[pjsheehan]

I have a Geforce 2 GTS with RedHat 7.1 .. When I installed via rpm, X would crash constantly during boot and the screen would flash every few seconds from the prompt. I had to compile the drivers from the source code to fix the problem. My suggestion is download the source and GLX tar.gz files, compile them as the install directions on Nvidia's website says. Make sure you make the changes in the XF86Config file. Hopefully this will fix your problem too. :)

[tonimontanna]

You folks ROCK!

Thanks

:D :D :D