All,<br>
<br>
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. :)<br>
<br>
Here is my system:<br>
<br>
Nforce2 Crush 18G IGP chipset +Southbridge MCP<br>
Athlon XP 2500+<br>
Geforce4 MX 440 AGP (S-video TV-out)<br>
FC core 3 kernel 2.6.10-1.770<br>
Nvidia 6629 driver<br>
Dell Flat Panel 1703FP VGA (analog)<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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..<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
dmesg normally reports something like this: <br>
agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset<br>
agpgart: Maximum memory....<br>
etc.<br>
<br>
/var/log/messages reports something like this:<br>
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA" taints kernel<br>
NVRM: loading nvidia 6629....<br>
NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!!<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
So....Given my situation...<br>
<br>
Would I be better off with FC 2 versus FC 3?<br>
What nvidia driver should I use? 6629?<br>
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? <br>
What NvAGP setting do I need in xorg.conf? I think I want NVAGP (1).<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Please help before I go postal.<br>
Larry<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>