[64studio-users] nVidia GeForce MX 4000 AGP card

[Gustin Johnson]

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You should have the nvidia driver loaded:
lsmod |grep nvidia

IF that previous command returns nothing, what happens when you type:
modprobe nvidia

If you get an error like "FATAL: Module nvidia not found", then you
probably need to build and install the module.  You should probably have
the packages "build-essential" and "kernel-package" installed.

If you do not get an error modprobing, the last few lines of dmesg might
be useful.


Peter Geirnaert wrote:
| Aha, I see something wrong here:
|
| peter at 64studio:~$ uname -a
| Linux 64studio 2.6.17-2-multimedia-486 #1 PREEMPT Tue Jun 27 10:40:20
| UTC 2006 i 686 GNU/Linux
|
| and I was trying to use the
| nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6.21-1-multimedia-486
|
| so probably that's why the nvidia-kernel module is not found, and I have
| to upgrade the Linux kernel.
|
| In Synaptic I find the linux-image-2.6.21-1-multimedia-486 package which
| is what I need, I hope so and will try it now ... Ok installed fine
|
| Now change the /etc/X11/xorg.conf's Driver to "nvidia" again, killall
| gdm, gdm
| and I should see the nvidia driver loaded ... mm, not working, I still
| have the same result from uname -a.
|
|
|
|
| On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Peter Geirnaert
| <peter.geirnaert at gmail.com <mailto:peter.geirnaert at gmail.com>> wrote:
|
|     I also found out about ENVY
|     <http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html> on this HOWTO
|     <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=363542> . It's a script to
|     automatically configure nvidia drivers . But now it's time to turn
|     down the machine for me, I'll check it out myself tomorrow.
|     Take care.
|     Peter
|
|
|
|     On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Peter Geirnaert
|     <peter.geirnaert at gmail.com <mailto:peter.geirnaert at gmail.com>> wrote:
|
|         Maybe it's important to add this piece of the log file
|         PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x]
|         (or from peter at 64studio:~$ lspci -tv
|         <http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html>)
|         Maybe I should try the nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx
|         instead of nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx ?
|         Tomorrow , I'll give it a go.
|
|
|
|
|         On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Peter Geirnaert
|         <peter.geirnaert at gmail.com <mailto:peter.geirnaert at gmail.com>>
|         wrote:
|
|             Hi,
|
|             I've followed the advise on the FAQ NR 14
|             <http://64studio.com/faq_user>
|             to install my nVidia GeForce MX 4000 AGP card,
|             to get GLX support for Blender
|             (I get this message when I try to run Blender: Xlib:
|             extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0")
|             (http://www.blender.org/education-help/faq/linux/#c2001
|             points me to the distro)
|
|             but when I change the xorg.conf Driver "nv" to "nvidia",
|             I get no GUI at all.
|
|             Currently I've got xserver-xorg-video-nv installed
|             (I think that's the driver my card uses now)
|             and
|             nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6.21-1-multimedia-486
|             and nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx removed again.
|
|             I added the Xorg.0.log file from /var/log/
|             but looking at it makes me think it didn't even try to load
|             the nvidia driver
|             and the Xorg.0.log.old was just the same
|
|             I don't know where to go now .
|             Any directions welcome ..
|
|             cheers
|             Peter
|
|
|
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