Overclocking Geforce 4

[novafire]

I have a GeForce 4 4200 and would like to know if/how you can overclock it in Linux.

Also, how do you get the video out/video capture to work in Linux?

[mdwatts]

Quite some time ago one of the LNO members wrote a article in the 'How I did it' forum on how to enable 'sidebanding' etc. when compiling the nvidia source code.

[bwkaz]

Also do a G4L (www.google.com/linux) search for "nvclock". Although it locks my GF4 Ti4200 up solid at even 1MHz above the default, you might have better luck.

I don't remember that article on enabling SBA and fast writes, so I don't know if this was said in there, but you don't have to recompile the NVIDIA_kernel package to enable them. Just add a line to modules.conf:

options NVdriver NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1

Then either exit X, modprobe -r NVdriver, and reload X, or just reboot.