NVidia drivers, Gforce2 MX, Xfree86

[slackware]

Hello all,

I have successfully compiled NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123 & NVIDIA_kernel modules.

I'm positive that its loading the right libGLcore.so, and libGL.so. Changed XF86Config to Driver "Nvidia", Load "glx"... etc.
(removed old GL libraries b4 hand..)

When X starts it shows the white Nvidia screen, and all seems to be fine.

However, when running GL apps, or just switching workspaces, etc, X will crash. If I start X and walk away, without loading anything, and come back in a few minutes it will crash as well. So I don't think its a problem with a certain application, just the driver itself. --- OR maybe because it's a PCI card, as similar sytems I've seen run flawlessly w/ a Gforce2 MX AGP.

Specs:
dual XEON 2.2 ghz
Tyan Thunder I7500
PCI Gforce 2 MX
Slackware 8.1 - Xfree86 4.2 vrel-6600

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!

thank you,

Bryan D. Black

[bwkaz]

How's the airflow around the card? I assume that the GF2MX has a fan, right? Does it work any better if you open up your case (or is that even possible with your setup)? What's the ambient case temp with the case closed?

I'm thinking it might be heat -- those were pretty close to the symptoms I was seeing when my GF4 4200's heatsink coating effectively burned, and stopped transmitting heat...

[slackware]

Thanks for the suggestion - but the air flow is good, and the fan is operational on the card. Also, i ordered 4 of these machines for my department, and all of them have the same symtoms. Has anyone had similar experiences w/ PCI?

[etr]

My first move would be to set NvAGP to 0. If that doesn't help, I'd run X with the following

startx -- -logverbose 9

The output should then be written to the log. On RedHat, this log is generally found in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, if my memory serves me. I don't know about slackware, however.

[slackware]

I've had NvAGP "0" set for quite some time - still the same results, however, as running startx -- -logverbose 9 here is some output from Xfree86.0.log for NVIDIA:

(II) LoadModule: "libglx.so" (glx)
(WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name "libglx.so"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.3123
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.3123
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver

.....

(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-3123 Tue Aug 27 16:00:08 PDT 2002
(II) NVIDIA: NVIDIA driver for: RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, Vanta,
RIVA TNT2 Ultra, RIVA TNT2 Model 64, Aladdin TNT2, GeForce 256,
GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 MX/MX 400, GeForce2 MX 100/200,
Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go, GeForce2 Integrated GPU, GeForce2 GTS,
GeForce2 Ti, GeForce2 Ultra, Quadro2 Pro, GeForce4 MX 460,
GeForce4 MX 440, GeForce4 MX 420, Quadro4 500/550 XGL,
Quadro4 200/400 NVS, NV18, NV18 , NV18 , NV18, NV18GL, NV18GL ,
NV18GL , 0x01F0, GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti 200, GeForce3 Ti 500,
Quadro DCC, GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce4 Ti 4400, GeForce4 Ti 4200,
Quadro4 900 XGL, Quadro4 750 XGL, Quadro4 700 XGL, NV28, NV28 ,
NV28GL, NV28GL , GeForce2 Go, GeForce4 440 Go, GeForce4 420 Go,
GeForce4 420 Go 32M, GeForce4 460 Go, GeForce4 440 Go 64M,
GeForce4 410 Go 16M, Quadro4 500 GoGL
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset GeForce2 MX 100/200 found
(II) Found 1 PCI NVIDIA devices
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
[0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0xfeaff000 - 0xfeafffff (0x1000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0xfeafe000 - 0xfeafefff (0x1000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0xfe7a0000 - 0xfe7bffff (0x20000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0xfe7ef000 - 0xfe7effff (0x1000) MX[B]
[9] -1 0x40000000 - 0x400003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[10] -1 0xfe7f0000 - 0xfe7fffff (0x10000) MX[B](B)
[11] -1 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[12] -1 0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[13] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[14] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[15] -1 0x0000dc80 - 0x0000dc9f (0x20) IX[B]
[16] -1 0x0000cc80 - 0x0000cc87 (0x8) IX[B]
[17] -1 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc1f (0x20) IX[B]
[18] -1 0x0000bc80 - 0x0000bcbf (0x40) IX[B]
[19] -1 0x0000ec80 - 0x0000ec9f (0x20) IX[B]
[20] -1 0x0000ffa0 - 0x0000ffaf (0x10) IX[B]
[21] -1 0x0000ec00 - 0x0000ec1f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) resource ranges after probing:
[0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0xfeaff000 - 0xfeafffff (0x1000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0xfeafe000 - 0xfeafefff (0x1000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0xfe7a0000 - 0xfe7bffff (0x20000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0xfe7ef000 - 0xfe7effff (0x1000) MX[B]
[9] -1 0x40000000 - 0x400003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[10] -1 0xfe7f0000 - 0xfe7fffff (0x10000) MX[B](B)
[11] -1 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[12] -1 0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[13] 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B]
[14] 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B]
[15] 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B]
[16] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[17] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[18] -1 0x0000dc80 - 0x0000dc9f (0x20) IX[B]
[19] -1 0x0000cc80 - 0x0000cc87 (0x8) IX[B]
[20] -1 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc1f (0x20) IX[B]
[21] -1 0x0000bc80 - 0x0000bcbf (0x40) IX[B]
[22] -1 0x0000ec80 - 0x0000ec9f (0x20) IX[B]
[23] -1 0x0000ffa0 - 0x0000ffaf (0x10) IX[B]
[24] -1 0x0000ec00 - 0x0000ec1f (0x20) IX[B]
[25] 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B]
[26] 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B]

.....
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 565
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NvAGP" "0"
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using HW cursor
(==) NVIDIA(0): video key set to default value of 0x83e
(**) NVIDIA(0): Use of AGP disabled per request
(--) NVIDIA(0): Chipset : "GeForce2 MX 100/200"
(--) NVIDIA(0): ChipID : 0x10de0111
(--) NVIDIA(0): ChipRev : 0xb2
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF0000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xFD000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): Found 2 CRTCs on board
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): Detected TV Encoder: Chrontel 7008
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 8 bpp: 350 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 350 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 300 MHz




Thanks again for your suggestion though!
Still no luck :( -- i can replicate the crash by switching workspaces.