The "beauty?" of the nvidia drivers in action

Bjorn Andersen ba at linuxin.dk
Tue Apr 5 06:22:58 UTC 2005


I have the same problem, and cant find a solution to the problem.

I find it strange that every new Fedora release brakes the Nvidia
drivers.

Just a thought.



/Bjorn



man, 04 04 2005 kl. 22:44 -0700, skrev Sean Bruno:
> 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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