Nvidia driver problems

[bkurt]

Ok, heres the problem. I'm using slack 7.1 with xfree86 4.0.1. Also, I have a Tyan trinity 400 mobo which uses the via apollo pro 133A chipset. I have a diamond viper v770 video card which uses the tnt2 chip. I'm running the 2.4.0 kernel. Ok, I installed the nvidia drivers, 0.9-6, and the install worked fine. I first removed the mesa files that would conflict. The problem is no matter what I try I get lockups everytime. I tried disabling AGP via the NVagp option in XF86Config. I tried using Nvidia's agp driver and agpgart. Any way I try it I get a lock up so now I'm thinking it may be a hardware issue with my video card and the via chipset since I have to do a lot of playing around to even get it to work in windows without locking up. For windows I have to go into the bios and turn the agp aperature size down to 8m or it will lock up there too. It also has never worked in agp 4x mode in windows. So I didn't know if there was anything that I could try or if my hardware just really doesn't like to play well together. Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

[lad24mx]

make sure you're using the "nvidia" driver and not the accelerated "nv" driver as this causes your X server to crash.

Here's how SuSE has addressed this issue, follow the link: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/nvidialong.html

Now this may be different on slack, but I really doubt it.

Good luck.

[mindwarp]

Go to evil3d.net and read their tutorial.. you have to edit the os_whatever file and change a # and then it will work.

Mindwarp

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"I'm born. I'm alive. I breathe. In a moment or two I realize, that the sphere, upon which I reside, is asleep on its feet. should I go back to sleep? We orbit the sun. I grow up. my open eyes see...A zombified, somnambulist society. Leaving us as vitamins for the hibernating human animal. Do you see what I mean?"

[bkurt]

Yes, I am using the nvidia driver and not the nv driver and I have already tried editing the os-registry.c file and then recompiling and that doesn't help. Anybody else have any ideas??

[mindwarp]

Recompile with agpgart.. ?
PNP OS off in bios.. hrm

Mindwarp

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"I'm born. I'm alive. I breathe. In a moment or two I realize, that the sphere, upon which I reside, is asleep on its feet. should I go back to sleep? We orbit the sun. I grow up. my open eyes see...A zombified, somnambulist society. Leaving us as vitamins for the hibernating human animal. Do you see what I mean?"

[TheGimp]

try deleting the old NVdriver module in /lib/modules/2.4.0/video before recompiling the new module

[bkurt]

Tried those methods as well guys. Thanks for trying though.

[ethereal]

Make sure you have the latest bios updates. My motherboard, abit KA7 had problems with the Geforce 2 64m version. I'm thinking if you have problems with windows that could be your problem.

[bkurt]

Well, I have the latest bios on right now. They haven't updated them for awhile, so I was hoping something would come out soon. Has anyone else experienced these sorts of problems with the Apollo Pro 133A???