[mythtv-users] Going Nuts re: Nvidia Setup

[Dewey Smolka]

I hope this is not a stupid question, but is there any chance the
nvidia xorg.conf you're using is to drive TV only?  Have you tried
hooking up the S-video and seeing if it works?

If you're not planning on going out to tv just yet, you might as well
keep your working xorg until you get the system configured and
running. Editing the xorg.conf file is not that hard as long as you
follow directions, but it's also possible to fry your hardware if you
make mistakes in modelines.

On Apr 3, 2005 9:21 PM, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>  
>  I have been struggling to get my nvidia environment set up according to
> Jarod's guide.  Let me start by saying that altho I am relatively new to the
> Linux world, I have a pretty solid foundation to build on.  However, this
> little project is doing very little for my self-esteem.  :)
>  
>  Here is my system:
>  
>  Nforce2 Crush 18G IGP chipset +Southbridge MCP
>  Athlon XP 2500+
>  Geforce4 MX 440 AGP (S-video TV-out)
>  FC core 3 kernel 2.6.10-1.770
>  Nvidia 6629 driver
>  Dell Flat Panel 1703FP VGA (analog)
>  
>  When I run KDE with the default xorg.conf file (nv driver), things appear
> to work correctly on the Dell monitor.  Having succeeded with that, I tried
> installing the nvidia xorg.conf, which is where the problems begin.  When
> the KDE desktop opens, the icons are not painted correctly, and when I click
> on things, the display is *somewhat* garbled.  I can normally see things
> well enough to do a shutdown, but that's about it.  
>  
>  I have experimented with about 1E10 permutation of settings, with varying
> degrees of limited success.  I have tried various settings of the NvAGP
> option, to no avail. I have disabled ACPI in the system BIOS.  I tried the
> mem=nopentium switch as described in the nvidia readme Appendix F.  I read
> about blacklisting AGPGART via /etc/hotplug/blacklist, but didnt get too far
> with that one..
>  
>  When I cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status, it sometimes says that AGP is
> not enabled, or some such message.  At other times, that nvidia directory is
> not even there at all.
>  
>  dmesg normally reports something like this: 
>  agpgart:  Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
>  agpgart: Maximum memory....
>  etc.
>  
>  /var/log/messages reports something like this:
>  nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA" taints kernel
>  NVRM: loading nvidia 6629....
>  NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!!
>  
>  I have stopped progress at chapter 7 of Jarod's guide.  I suspect I have
> some fundamental flaw in my AGP environment that I must solve before I
> continue installing.
>  
>  So....Given my situation...
>  
>  Would I be better off with FC 2 versus FC 3?
>  What nvidia driver should I use?  6629?
>  Do I want agpgart?  Does this conflict with the nvidia driver?  or
> complement it?  If I don't want this, how do I disable it?  
>  What NvAGP setting do I need in xorg.conf?  I think I want NVAGP (1).
>  
>  What could be making  it so difficult to get this nvidia xorg.conf to work
> properly?  Eventually, I plan to use the S-video TV-out, but if I can't make
> the video driver work on a simple VGA connection, I should not tackle TV-out
> or God forbid, twinview!  At least, not yet.
>  
>  Please help before I go postal.
>  Larry
>  
>  P.S.  Earlier this month, I had successfully built mythtv on a FC 2 setup,
> altho I never got TV-out or twinview set up properly.  Then, in a moment of
> idiocy, I started over with FC 3, which is proving to be more difficult than
> FC 2, it seems.
>  
>  
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