[mythtv-users] Going Nuts re: Nvidia Setup

Mon Apr 4 13:54:47 UTC 2005

Here is my nvidia xorg.conf. I have confirmed that the Horiz and Vertical 
rates are correct per my Dell monitor.

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the 

# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "v41"
# Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Unknown monitor"
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

# Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT-0"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

On Apr 3, 2005 10:37 PM, Dewey Smolka <dsmolka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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> >
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