NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 Linux Driver

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 18:29:34 UTC 2006


On 10/2/06, Robert Anderson <riznob at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a similar issue with a nvidia FX5200 AGP card. I looked for answers at
> nvnews.net forums. In my case, I believe that there was a bug in my BOIS
> perhaps that is exposed by later versions of the nvidia drivers. I have a
> Dell 400sc, which is a server machine. Dell says the AGP slot on this box is
> "not supported". I bought a PCI FX5200 and the problem is gone.
>
> I suggest you update your BIOS to the latest available version first. If the
> problem still exists, try to set the AGP speed to 4x or 2x in your BIOS. Not
> all BIOSs allow you to do this. You could also try compiling the nvidia
> drivers to use AGP 4x or 2x. I can't remember exactly how to do this, but if
> you search the forum at nvnews.net you should be able to figure it out.

Or try disabling AGP altogether as a quick test by setting NvAGP to 0
in xorg.conf.  If that doesn't help, then reducing the AGP rate isn't
going to help either.


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