-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: X crashing with new Geforce FX5700 card
Brad wrote: >I just installed a Geforce FX5700LE video card into a Abit KG7 mobo >with latest bios. At first I could not even get kdm to start but >when I chaged the AGP setting in the bios from 4x to 2x I was able >to get X to start, but after running for awhile it crashed, nothing >in the logs says what happened. I have the latest Nvidia drivers >from Debian Sid, and before this card I was using a Geforce 3 >Ti4200 which ran great. Anyone have any ideas, I read in >the release notes for the nvidia drivers that there is a known >problem with the AMD Irongate chipset and AGP speed and that it >will only work at 1x, but this does not make sense since I was >running the other Geforce card without >any problems for almost 2 years. >TIA >Brad Cramer First of all you mention that the error does not show up in the log, is that your Xfree86.log? Also after changing video cards did you change your Xfree86 config file? Most likely you will need to change the PCI Bus ID which might be different for each card. Use lspci -mv to list your devices, and see if what it mentions as the device ID. Yes, I'm sorry, I was talking about the Xfree86.log. And I have never made an entry in Xfree86 config file for the PCI Bus ID, did not know it needed to be there. I would use the Nvidia drivers from Nvidia which should be up to version 5336, go to their website and download their installer. You might need kernel headers, or a custom kernel for a complete install, just follow the directions, in the readme. As far as the AMD Irongate chipset issue, it should not be a problem, as it was refering to only 1x graphics cards. I will try the drivers directly from Nvidia and see if that helps, but I have been using the debian version for quite some time. Also, my take on the Nvidia change notes was that if using an AMD Irongate chipset, it will only allow your card to run at 1x. I have a Geforce 5600 Ultra in a dual MP 1.2 system, and I can say it works great, but I am CPU limited on my graphics performance. I also tried my card in a Athlon 1.7 gig system and had the same problem. So I hope you have a good CPU in your system to take advantage of the new graphics power. Otherwise you might not notice that much of a difference. Also do you dual boot, you should not have to change bios settings it should run at 4x, you might want to see how it performs under Windows. If it works under Windows then you know its a config problem under Gnu/Linux. I have an Athlon 1400 CPU, I know pretty old, been looking into upgrade. Also yes I do dual boot and the card runs like crap in Windows XP also, so I think this is some type of low level problem (bios, bad hardware, etc.) Thanks Brad Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
