F7 nvidia-96xx driver problem

[Ed Greshko]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 20:42, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> On 7/24/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 16:12, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>>> On 7/24/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
>>>>> Having an oldish GeForce 4 type video card, I tried to get 3D
>>>>> acceleration, so (after some inquiry on the nVidia website) I did
>>>>> # yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx
>>>>> Yum took the package from Livna, took the appropriate xorg-x11-driver
>>>>> file, installed them both successfully. I verified the xorg.conf file
>>>>> that was modified in the process, and it looks perfectly sane to me.
>>>>> But, after startx all I get is a blank dark screen, and all I can do
>>>>> is to press the reset button.
>>>> X is hanging.  See:
>>>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498
>>>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678
>>> Thanks for the pointers! :-)
>>>
>>> So, I managed to make the nvidia-bug-report.log (it is attached).
>>> After the reboot I found the log file there. I'll also try to post it on
>>> the nVidia forums (where exactly?) and see what happens.
>>>
>>> So what now? Can you tell why is X hanging based on the log?
>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 1, 0x8000, 0x000003d4, 0x00000474)
>> (II) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA X driver has encountered an error; attempting to
>> (II) NVIDIA(0):     recover...
>>
>> Have you verified that you're using the latest motherboard BIOS?
> 
> Well, no... I am still using the BIOS that came with the board, didn't have 
> the need to upgrade it. With FC4 the nVidia driver did work. I will check on 
> this, though.
> 
>> Does setting NvAGP to 0 in xorg.conf help?
> 
> I assume it should be put in as
> Option "NvAGP" "0"
> in the "Device" section? I did so, and it did not help. Though, the log file 
> now looks somewhat different. It says somewhere that AGP is switched off by 
> request, but the simptoms are still the same.
> 
> Any other sugestions?
> 
> Thanks for help! :-)

FWIW, I've only had one problem with the nvidia drivers over the past 4~5
years.  In a past thread I mentioned that I reported the issue to nvidia and
the problem was fixed in the next release.  Your GPU is a "legacy" one but
the following notes may be of help.

If you have any questions or problems, please check the linux discussion
forum. If you don't find an answer to your question there, you can send
email (in English) to linux-bugs at nvidia.com.

When emailing linux-bugs at nvidia.com, please attach an nvidia-bug-report.log,
which is generated by running "nvidia-bug-report.sh".

Ed