Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

[hungrybeast]

Hi. I recently went with Kubuntu because it was one of the few distros in which my Ralink RT61/RT2561 wifi worked. I yearn to play this copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 that I have had for a while. However, Nvidia GLX will not work for me. I believe this is a multifaceted problem:

(1) I am running an i386 kernel on hardware that deserves a k8-smp kernel because my aforementioned wifi will not load up properly under Kubuntu x86-64.

(2) I am using the nvidia-glx package from the repositories instead of the shell script-installed GLX from nvidia. I assumed that the package from the repositories would be easier to set up than the sh version. I could have assumed incorrectly.

My problem occurs after I restart X. The screen is blank for about a minute and then goes into power saving. I have tried many methods of editing the same driver line in xorg.conf. These include just adding "idia" myself, allowing the Nvidia x-config program to do this, and allowing menu>system settings>display>hardware to do this. Interestingly, the method through system settings says, "this configuration cannot safely be tested." At any rate, they all lead to me having to boot recovery mode in grub and repair my poor xorg.conf.

Help.

...By the way my system is athlon x2 3800, via k8t890, geforce 6200 if that helps any.

[Volvo_Guy]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

The easiest way I've found to install nVidia drivers is through Automatix. You can get it from: http://www.getautomatix.com or from konsole

sudo apt-get install automatix

You can try this method. It will backup your xorg.conf file as well incase you need to reboot failsafe and fix it. I have a similiar setup and I'm using the k7-smp kernel.

Will

[hungrybeast]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

Nope. Make Automatix failed method number four. I don't think any method of initializing Nvidia drivers is particularly hard. They all just make a career out of changing "nv" to "nvidia." Something more sinister must be afflicting my computer. My motherboard has two video slots: one agp, one pci express. Don't make fun. It was a Fry's cheaptastic mobo+cpu combo deal. It made me first in the nerd circle at school to own a dual-core proc, and on the cheap too. (Not that I don't feel buyer's remorse every time I boot my wimpy i386 kernel) My geforce 6200, also a Fry's buy is agp. Is its AGP-ness causing a misdetection in linux? Do you want my lspci output? Would trying a different Nvidia agp card be beneficial? Do I need to buy a pci-e card? Do I need to switch to a 32-bit AMD MCP kernel, like you did? Isn't that designed for AthlonMP?

Any more help would be greatly appreciated.

[Volvo_Guy]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

Well that's quite a post. First off lets deal with the hardware. AGP is fine. Your video card is more than fine. AGP vs. PCI-X to linux means just a different bus to address. No biggie. As far as your processor, it's the same as mine. the i386 kernel is a single core kernel. You can use Adept to get the K7-SMP kernel, but beware, it may screw with your drivers for your video card. SMP is for mulit-core processors. You should see a performance increase in theory, but in reality I haven't tasked it enough where it would matter. When you ran through Automatix, and selected the nVidia driver installation, what happend? Did it install and have you reboot or at least restart X? I don't know why so many people are having difficulties with these drivers. I personally haven't ran into any issues thus far using the Automatix method. As far as your mobo with 2 video slots, no biggie there either. Your bios is telling the OS to use AGP output over the PCI-X. While we're talking about the BIOS, you can take a peek and making sure that Plug 'N Play OS is disable, just incase there may be conflict with that. Also, do you have under KDE button ->System->nVidia Settings? What does it say in there about your video card? Don't give up hope yet!

Will

[hungrybeast]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

Yes, I do have nvidia settings in the menu. However, there are two of them, one w/o an icon, just text. This indicates to me that there a few broken installs of the driver for me to mop up. I will get on that. Also, the setup utility only has tooltips, statusbar, and other meaningless settings like that. I imagine this is due to my lack of success in loading the driver even once. The left pane only has the category with these meaningless settings. All the same stuff goes for the shortcut that's iconless.

Furthermore, my BIOS is some garbage AMI BIOS, so it doesn't have a plugnplay os toggle like every phoenix BIOS-based board I've ever owned.

If you don't think switching out the kernel is something relevant to this problem, I think I'll do that on a really boring day.

As for the Automatix install, it did ask me to restart and I did. X just gave me the blank screen again, so I had to go to recovery mode and cp back my old xorg.conf. However, I will try this again after I've gotten rid of the nvidia packages I installed and started over with just Automatix.

[hungrybeast]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

Another failed install even after cleaning up. The automatix logs seem to tell the story. I just don't know the language. I'm also incuding the incriminating system settings screenshot.

[hungrybeast]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

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[hungrybeast]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

Does anyone know what time will usually gets on? I guess he's the only one who knows anything around here.

[Volvo_Guy]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

Ok, copy/paste your xorg.conf file. it's in /etc/X11 in case you didn't know.

Here's the video portions of mine:

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VX922"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Monitor "VX922"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

And as far as me being the only one who knows anything around here, that's far from the truth. This community is full of knowledgeable people that want to help out. I've asked many questions in the past with success in finding a solution.

Will

[hungrybeast]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "COMPAQ FS760"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
Monitor "COMPAQ FS760"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

[Volvo_Guy]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

Well,

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common

sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

Then we'll change your "nv" to "nvidia" in xorg.

kdesu kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Try that. I noticed your xorg.conf file is still using "nv" (generic) vs. the "nvidia" driver.

And at the bottom:

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

I've never seen a section just for DRI, because it's already loading with the modules. I'll do some more reading.

Will

[jdawiz]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

I did see your bad device errors and I just found how to get rid of those errors. You should be able to comment out any of the sections in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf that refer to wacom in the driver section. Hope this helps a little

[Volvo_Guy]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

The above suggestion is worth a shot as well. Is this a tablet pc?

Will

[PDR60]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

You may try this method. It has worked for a bunch of folks.

http://www.linuxloader.com/modules.p...pid=28&page=32

PDR60

[hungrybeast]

Re: Yet Another Nvidia GLX Question

Thanks, PDR60. So I guess having the exact kernel for ones processor is necessary. Will try right now. Last method posted changed the device name for my card to radeon 7000. That wasn't cool.