Nvidia MX 4000 card locking up on FC5 as updated

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/13/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> I bought an Nvidia MX 4000 (10de:0185 (rev c1)), and am having
> problems with it.
>
> If I remove xorg.conf and let the nvidia installer build a new one, I
> can run startx and X srarts up. I get a blue screen and the mouse
> works, but the keyboard does not. I can log in over SSH, and find that
> the system locks up for several seconds at a time, until the system
> locks up completely. At that point, a reset is necessary.
>
> I see the same results with the livna RPM and the native installer
> from Nvidia.
>
> I see the following in /var/log/messages:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Jun 13 15:38:33 charlesc kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8762  Mon May 15 13:06:38 PDT 2006
> Jun 13 15:38:33 charlesc kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> Jun 13 15:38:33 charlesc kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
> Jun 13 15:38:33 charlesc kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
> Jun 13 15:38:36 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-4027): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 4027 user 'ccurley'
> Jun 13 15:38:36 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-4027): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
> Jun 13 15:38:36 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-4027): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/ccurley/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
> Jun 13 15:38:36 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-4027): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
> Jun 13 15:38:39 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-4027): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/ccurley/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0
> Jun 13 15:39:03 charlesc kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000001e
> Jun 13 15:39:47 charlesc last message repeated 3 times
> Jun 13 15:41:02 charlesc last message repeated 5 times
> Jun 13 15:42:17 charlesc last message repeated 5 times
> Jun 13 16:02:41 charlesc syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> I see no errors or warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

try booting with noapic and/or acpi=off
verify you're using the latest BIOS
set NvAGP=0 in xorg.conf


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