AGP & OpenGL problems with latest driver (using Mandrake 9.1, GF4 440MX-SE)

[hytan]

Hope to get some help here, I have tried many ways but still not manage to solve the problem.


Problem:

1. AGP related: Nvidia splash screen will be shown only when NvAGP setting is set to '0' - meaning disabling AGP, other that '0', if using default value of '3' or even '1' or '2', my system will just hang when starting X (screen go blank).

2. OpenGL related: So well, at least NvAGP = '0' works. With that setting I've successfully enter X, downloaded Heretic2 and UT2003 to try out. Heretic2 will hang with OpenGL settings, complaining no OpenGL library loaded. And with UT2003, the game can run, but the frame-rate is way too slow.


Background:

Well I am obviously wanted to use my lovely AGP4X! The reason why UT2003 runs slow may be because the AGP is disabled. And I also want to use OpenGL. By the way, my XFree86.0.log have never show any (EE) error with any NvAGP setting (0, 1, 2, or 3).

Will attached the both the XFree86 and it's log files (with NvAGP = 3) in my next message. Appreciate any help! Thanks. :)

[hytan]

XFree86.0.log

[hytan]

XF86Config-4

(have renamed to .txt due to error message when attaching files)

[Andy Mecham]

What chipset do you have? If it's the KT400, please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9927

--andy

[hytan]

Hi Andy, no my chipset isn't KT400, it's Intel 815E, motherboard is this Aopen MX3S:
http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/MX3S.htm

Pretty old board yeah.

[hytan]

Hi Andy, I'm still waiting for your reply on this one, is there a solution for it? Thanks. :)

[Andy Mecham]

I don't have an answer for you regarding your AGP problem - the Intel i815 is a chipset that's supported by both AGPGART and NVAGP, and i've not seen other reports of failures. Can you try modprobe nvidia cur_debuglevel=0 and see if that prints out anything useful?

The Heretic2 issue is probably because the demo includes a libGL.so link in the game directory itself. Remove that, and you should pick up your system libGL.so.

--andy

[hytan]

I finally found a solution to it. There is a bios for this motherboard Aopen MX3S that need to be downloaded and flashed (released not long ago). That solves the problem.

Those having problem, yeah can try to upgrade bios of your motherboard, graphics card, may be everything is just due to that. :)

Thanks Andy for the support.