martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.05.1955 +0200]: > > Try knoppix and see if it behaves differently. If it works then > > you have an A-B comparison available to try to determine what is > > different. > > Unfortunately, Knoppix exhibits the same problem.
Darn. Probably at this point your best bet would be the nvidia drivers from nvidia. I don't have good luck compiling against kernels not compiled locally, I think because the compiler and libraries on my machine don't match the ones used by original kernel maintainer. Therefore my best luck has been to make sure I have a kernel I can boot off of compiled locally and then add the nvidia driver to it. I would like to know the PCI identification of the card. After that is working I am curious how the driver identifies the card, the output of cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0. Here are some old notes on installing the nvidia driver. They may be of assistance. Note that the names of the packages have changed now so you will need to translate them to the latest names. In particular build 2880 is quite old now. But the basics are the same. The new names are nvidia-kernel-common, nvidia-graphics-drivers and nvidia-glx. I am using 4496. Build 5336 is now current. If you are going to be installing offline then you will need to get the NVIDIA_*tar.gz files from nVidia prior to doing the installation. cd /usr/src wget http://205.158.109.140/XFree86_40/1.0-2880/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.tar.gz wget http://205.158.109.140/XFree86_40/1.0-2880/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2880.tar.gz Use the Debian source installer packages. cd /usr/src sudo apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src sudo apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.20 Build the kernel modules cd /usr/src tar xzf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz # /usr/src/modules/... tar xjf kernel-source-2.4.20.tar.bz2 cd kernel-source-2.4.20 cp /boot/config-2.4.20-2-k7 .config make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -2-k7 modules_image cd /usr/src sudo dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-*.deb Build the graphics drivers cd /usr/src/nvidia-glx-1.0.2880 fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc cd /usr/src sudo dpkg -i nvidia-glx*.deb # two packages {,-dev} Configure X for this driver ... edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ... Driver "nvidia" Option "UseFBDev" "true" Option "NoLogo" "true" Remove from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 the following drivers. GLcore # OpenGL support (conflicts with nvidia) dri # Direct rendering infrastructure (conflicts with nvidia) Leave only these modules in the list. dbe # Double-buffering extmod # Misc. required extensions glx # OpenGL X protocol interface type1 Reference Information /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz Bob
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