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

Wed May 21 18:09:25 BST 2008

Hi Gustin, thanks for the reply,

I followed your advice, (with xorg.conf's driver still set to nv), and as
root I typed:

lsmod |grep nvidia

and got:

nvidia               4714292  0
i2c_core               22400  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
agpgart                33364  2 nvidia,intel_agp

modprobe nvidia
didn't return anything

so here are the last three lines of dmesg:

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-9631  Thu Nov  9 17:38:10
PST 2006

So I think the driver has been loaded,
It may not matter to say  that I upgraded from a 64 studio 1.0 cd
installation, but
I'm not really sure if the update/upgrade is completely done already,
because I see there are newer kernel versions available etc.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:

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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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