Nvidia 7200 on AMD64

[tocha]

Hello to all, this is my first post here.

I cant get this config to work, if I change the driver line to "nvidia" on xorg.conf any sort of X display (kdm, startx, X, ...) blinks the screen, turn it to black and freezes the entire system. I can still use magic SysRq Crtl+SysRq+[S,U,B] at least.
If I change the line to "nv" or wahtever else on xorg.conf it starts and run ok. Of course without hardware support.

I tried the restricted drivers from repositories, enyynv and running the downloaded drivers from nvidia.com. Always the same result with nvidia 169.12 series.

I finally managed to get it workin witn nvidia 100.14. The display starts and works very well, glxinfo and glxgears showed good results (for my needs)... I was very happy and then... the entire system freezes. After a reboot, some minutes of use and another freeze.

I am trying to investigate the logs, but I cannot find nothing so far. Do anyone have a clue to me?

By the way, on gutsy 64bits the system works very well (using nvidia 100.14).

[Guest]

Re: Nvidia 7200 on AMD64

Tocha,

After doing a network upgrade from kubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, I spent 5.5 hours trying to get X-windows working correctly with my nvidia 6100 (n405) imbedded video system. I took many of the same steps you did, but simply could not get X running in anything but "low graphics" mode. I went back and forth with "envyng", "nvidia-settings" and "nvidia-xconfig" and watched with increasing frustration as one or the other of those utilities seemed to cancel the other out (nvidia-settings specifically was deleted several times in there; I'm not sure why).

I downloaded the 169.12 driver version from the nvidia site and ran it (twice), then ran nvidia-xconfig as instructed. Couldn't even get X windows to start after that. Round and round I went like this for hours.

I finally got X-windows working -- and the nvidia kernel module loaded and running -- by ensuring that I had my specific monitor defined (a dell 1704fpt in analog) before running nvidia-xconfig. Without having the monitor correctly defined, all of these utilities seem to blow up and fall back to a "default" or "generic" monitor. Best as I can figure out, they just don't want to write out a new xorg.conf that contains a high-res video driver if there is no high-res display attached to it. I don't know if that's what is actually happening or not, but that's what it took for me to get X working correctly again on my machine.

Note also that I did not try to define the correct monitor at the same time I defined the correct nvidia video driver. Define the monitor first, ensure the all the various resolutions of which it is capable show up in xorg.conf, then try to get the system to load the correct nvidia video driver and kernel module.

As an aside, I can tell by the number of posts on this subject that getting the nvidia drivers correctly defined and loaded under Hardy is a lot harder than it really ought to be. Never did I dream that I would run into this kind of problem simply by doing a version upgrade over the network. And I thought getting X to work again was tough when I upgraded from 7.04 to 7.10!!

I hope this helps. Best of luck.

[tocha]

Re: Nvidia 7200 on AMD64

Thanks for your hints Hologram.
But I think the problem here is another one. using 100.14 I can get it to work in all resolutions my monitor support, I had to put V/H rates of my monitor on xorg.con, as you said.
My problem is that 169.12 hangs the entire system after a startx and 100.14 works good for a few moments (its random but got two hours last time) and then freezes the system.

Inspecting my logs, on the time of the hang I got:
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Apr 26 10:33:42 tocha-desktop kernel: [ 8900.736328] NVRM: Xid (0004:00): 26, Ch 000001ff M 00001ffc D ffffffff intr ffffffff
Apr 26 10:33:58 tocha-desktop kernel: [ 8921.522149] SysRq : Emergency Sync
Apr 26 10:33:58 tocha-desktop kernel: [ 8921.524240] Emergency Sync complete
Apr 26 10:34:00 tocha-desktop kernel: [ 8922.716644] SysRq : Emergency Remount R/O
----

I think the NVRM line means something... I will test with 169.12 too, just to see I got the same message.

[dwneylonsr]

Re: Nvidia 7200 on AMD64

Hologram,

This seems to be exactly my problem. Where exactly did you define the monitor? in xorg.conf??

thanks,
David

[Guest]

Re: Nvidia 7200 on AMD64

David,

I set my display while within the System Settings >> Monitor & Display window. To get there, I had to accept the "always use low graphics" setting that kept appearing when I first booted into X. Once I got that low res X window running (at 800 x 600, I believe), I navigated to the Monitor & Display window, then to Display, then selected my Dell monitor from the list (very long list). Once the monitor was configured, I could at least set my resolution to its optimal setting. But I later discovered that I'm still struggling with loading the Nvidia drivers. Not sure what the problem is there now At least I have a decent screen resolution...

[tocha]

Re: Nvidia 7200 on AMD64

Today I downloaded the beta drivers as told on this link
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...hlight=dayzed2

To resume to one post, i had to:
remove nvidia-glx-new, nvidia-glx-common and linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16...

Then, i get the beta drivers from
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
(for AMD64) :http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...73.08-pkg2.run

Go to a console terminal, kill kdm and run the driver. then I had to edit my xorg.conf as I wanted to do it by myself.

After that, X is working with the new beta drivers. Needs more testing but no need to use SysRq and its stable.

Thanks for your suggestions

[muzicman0]

Re: Nvidia 7200 on AMD64

I had this problem once when I was on an AMD64 system using 32 bit OS (not sure if that matters or not...). I had to add some boot options...I added 'no apic' and 'no lapic'). I also had to make sure that there was not speed stepping on my processor...I think I deleted a file related to powernow, but I don't remember, sorry....I think later versions of the nvidia driver fixed the powernow issue.
mm0