Nvidia MX 4000 card locking up on FC5 as updated

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/13/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:50:48PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >> try booting with noapic and/or acpi=off
> >
> > Tried it; no go.
> >
> >> verify you're using the latest BIOS
> >
> > I've just upgraded to the latest non-beta BIOS. The MB is an ASUS
> > A7V8X-X, and the latest BIOS is 1013, dated 9 September 2004.
> >
> >> set NvAGP=0 in xorg.conf
> >
> > There was no xorg.conf. I had manually removed it. I just re-installed
> > and made sure to rebuild xorg.conf. So I got an XF86Config instead of
> > an xorg.conf. NBD.
> >
> > Anyway, I added that line and NoLogo "0" to the device section. I get:
> >
> > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
> > Parse error on line 57 of section Device in file /etc/X11/XF86Config
> >       "NvAGP" is not a valid keyword in this section.
> > (EE) Problem parsing the config file
> > (EE) Error parsing the config file
> >
> > According to the README file, it is valid in both the device and
> > screen sections, which I tried.
>
> Option         "NvAgp" "0"
>
> Belongs in Section "Screen".  Is that where you have it?

Actually, it will work in either the Screen section or Device section.
 Charles' problem was that he specified it as  keyword instead of as
an option.

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