The "beauty?" of the nvidia drivers in action

Sean Bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Tue Apr 5 05:44:42 UTC 2005


For fun(?) I decided to test those NVIDIA drivers against the latest
rawhide kernel and sundry other apps.  Surprise!  no worky.

Anyway, that's not this lists problem and I am spamming over to the
nvidia mailing list for guidance, but there was some interesting
behaviour of the system when the module was loaded.  Here are some of
the highlights from /var/log/messages:

Pretty Standard here:
Apr  4 22:31:34 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 5
Apr  4 22:31:37 localhost kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints
kernel.
Apr  4 22:31:37 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] ->
GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Apr  4 22:31:37 localhost kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA
Kernel Module  1.0-7174  Tue Mar 22 06:44:39 PST 2005

Then the fun begins.  The following three messages appear repeatedly:
Apr  4 22:31:38 localhost kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant
device at 0000:00:00.0.
Apr  4 22:31:38 localhost kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at
0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Apr  4 22:31:38 localhost kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at
0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode

Sprinkled with messages about gdm loosing its connection to X(not
surprising if X is having serious issues):
Apr  4 22:31:44 localhost gdm[4251]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
error - Restarting :0

Then the final message of Doom:
Apr  4 22:32:29 localhost gdm[4139]: Failed to start X server several
times in a short time period; disabling display :0

Anyhow, I'm running this on a Dell Latitude D800 with an Nvidia GeForce4
Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x.  Don't know if anyone on this list really cares at
this point, and I don't think that anyone at Nvidia is going to give a
rip either.  Just thought you all might be curious!

Sean







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