startx show me garbage code at screen

[photofox]

I have reinstalled both the driver and RH9 several times,but the driver still does not work and I can not start xwindows.My project does need openGL to work,who can help me?thanks!

CPU:Athlon 2400+
mainboard:EPOX nforce2 without graphic
video card:Gforce 3 Ti 500
OS:RH9
video driver version:1.0-4349
video bios:default

following is the log file generated with command
startx -- -logverbose 5

[photofox]

log file generated with command:
startx

[photofox]

config file

[bahamot]

let me guess, ur BIOS is newer than 3129 ??

[photofox]

I can not get into xwindows and do not know the version of video card:confused:
the driver in RH9 works well but I can not use openGL,so I install the new driver released by nvidia

[photofox]

I really need help:eek:

[bahamot]

i mean ur mobo's BIOS, not ur VGA's BIOS

[photofox]

But my video card works well when using the default driver provided by RH9??It is the upgrade of the driver cause the problem.
what's mobo? mobile?:confused:

[bwkaz]

Motherboard.

Epox 8RDA+ (at least; perhaps other Epox motherboards) BIOSes newer than 3129 all have this problem with the nVidia drivers.

You don't see it with the default RH driver because the default RH driver does not try to access the video hardware nearly as much as the 3D accelerated one does.

[bahamot]

Originally posted by bwkaz
Motherboard.

Epox 8RDA+ (at least; perhaps other Epox motherboards) BIOSes newer than 3129 all have this problem with the nVidia drivers.

You don't see it with the default RH driver because the default RH driver does not try to access the video hardware nearly as much as the 3D accelerated one does.

1000% agree :)

workaround: downgrade to 3129 BIOS

[photofox]

thanks a lot:angel: ,I will try to downgrade my bios
oh, I have spent two days on this driver and will still get lost without your helps
my motherboard is Epox 8RDA with C1 support

[bahamot]

tell us if that works

[photofox]

I am downloading the BIOS and will tell you later:D

[photofox]

version 0402 of the bios was released on 2003-04-10 ,does it fix the problem?

[bahamot]

i'm afraid not,
currently i'm using 8rda+ w/ 3129 BIOS + 43.49 NVIDIA driver + RH9
everything works fine except u can't connect ur TV out while using Nvidia 43.49 driver in linux

[photofox]

God save me, when I flash the bios to your version,my computer can not boot up any more,what can I do now?Downgrade Bios damaged the motherboard,save me:(

[bahamot]

reset the BIOS,
read ur mobo's manual, and unplug the jumper and plug it again

[Josemilla]

Downgrade BIOS is the solution...

Thanks!!!:angel:

[Josemilla]

Originally posted by photofox
version 0402 of the bios was released on 2003-04-10 ,does it fix the problem?

No. :( :( :( :( :(

[photofox]

Originally posted by bahamot
reset the BIOS,
read ur mobo's manual, and unplug the jumper and plug it again
I have tried that method,but it can only reset the cmos but not bios :( .Is there other methods?

[bahamot]

Originally posted by photofox
I have tried that method,but it can only reset the cmos but not bios :( .Is there other methods?

if u want to restore ur BIOS, than u have to download it from epox's website, and flash it again with it

[bwkaz]

Most recent BIOSes (I don't know if Epox's is included, but ... maybe) have a boot block option. It's only enough code to get the CPU and a floppy drive initialized, but if you have another computer (and it sounds like you do, considering you're posting here ;)), then use it to make a bootable floppy that's just DOS formatted, with an autoexec.bat that runs the flash program with the right BIOS version.

What happened when you tried flashing it? Did you lose power in the middle of the flash, or did you hit ctrl-alt-delete to reboot or something before it was done? That's the only way I've ever heard of a BIOS flash failing...

[guills]

Are you sure you didn't downgrade your BIOS to a previous revision of your motherboard's BIOS?

I don't know about your motherboard in particular but most motherboards ship multiple revisions of their motherboards and bioses are not compatible across revisions usually because the hardware itself changes.

Guills

[bahamot]

Originally posted by bwkaz
What happened when you tried flashing it? Did you lose power in the middle of the flash, or did you hit ctrl-alt-delete to reboot or something before it was done? That's the only way I've ever heard of a BIOS flash failing...

agree......

[photofox]

Originally posted by bwkaz
Most recent BIOSes (I don't know if Epox's is included, but ... maybe) have a boot block option. It's only enough code to get the CPU and a floppy drive initialized, but if you have another computer (and it sounds like you do, considering you're posting here ;)), then use it to make a bootable floppy that's just DOS formatted, with an autoexec.bat that runs the flash program with the right BIOS version.

What happened when you tried flashing it? Did you lose power in the middle of the flash, or did you hit ctrl-alt-delete to reboot or something before it was done? That's the only way I've ever heard of a BIOS flash failing...
your first method I have tried but does not work
second method is difficult because it is hard to get the bios chip out without special tools

I change another motherboard,but they have the same bios version:(

nothing happened during my bios flash process(I have do this several times in other computers)

besides the method to downgrade the bios,is there any safer one to get the openGL working??