NVIDIA Drivers in FC2 test 2

Sat Apr 10 14:53:53 UTC 2004

Hi.

I'm new to this mailing list, so I'm not sure if anyone else has already
pointed this out. (I certainly didn't find it)

I downloaded NVIDIA drivers version 5336-pkg1 and compiled it without
troubles (I didn't recompile the kernel).
The graphics acceleration worked out perfectly (I'm running Warcraft III
with winex3 faster than in Windows!).

The problem is that when I boot Linux, it sometimes crash just before
starting GDM. It does open X and that nice progress bar shows up, but if
I don't keep moving the mouse (?!) it crashes and the only way out is to
press reset! (The screen is black, the keyboard and the mouse don't work
at all)

It doesn't crash after that, but it does take a while to get the mouse
running when I switch virtual consoles.

--

Just to be complete:

I installed Fedora Core without any issue except for the mouse that
wasn't working on the installation and after it.

I opened /etc/X11/XF86Config, commented out the line:
#       Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2",
changed
#       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
to
        Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
in theInputDevice section for the mouse and it worked fine.

My awnser to "cat /proc/version" is:

Linux version 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 (bhcompile at tweety.devel.redhat.com) (gcc
version 3.3.3 20040216 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-2.1)) #1 Fri Mar 12 14:01:55
EST 2004

And "glxinfo" gives:

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
server glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
    GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
    GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer
GLX extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: RIVA TNT2/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 1.4.1 NVIDIA 53.36
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
    GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_window_pos,
    GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra,
    GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,
    GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
    GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
GL_EXT_secondary_color,
    GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
    GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
    GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
    GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
    GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_fog_distance,
    GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
    GL_NV_texture_env_combine4, GL_SGIS_multitexture, GL_SUN_slice_accum
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x21 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x22 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x23 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x24 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  0  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x25 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x26 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0  0  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x27 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0  0  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x28 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  0  0  0  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x29 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0  0  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x2a 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x2b 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  0  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x2c 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x2d 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0  0  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x2e 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0  0  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x2f 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  0  0  0  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x30 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0  0  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 None

(I have a serial Logitech mouse and a 32MB RIVA TNT2 NVIDIA Video Card)

Anyone else has the same issue?
Thanks in advance (and sorry for this BIG email).

-- 
Danilo Enoque Ferreira de Lima <daniloefl at bol.com.br>