nvidia 4496 driver crashes with quadro 200/400NVS on Compaq SP700 2xPIII
 

Hello,
the nvidia 4496 and the 4363 driver crash with a nvidia quadro 200/400NVS on Compaq SP700 double processor system with 2 PIII 500 MHz when starting X-windows. The screen becomes white and the system immediately freezes. I also don't get any /var/log/XF86free.0.log (size 0).
The distribution used was SuSE 9.0.
Compilation and installation went OK
after the steps described in the nvidia/SuSE documents. nv driver works.

Both modules load OK with

Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-smp4G/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules

The Hardware/ output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-LE Host Bridge (rev 06)
00:00.1 PCI bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-LE Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device b052 (rev 02)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: Compaq Computer Corporation Triflex Dual EIDE Controller (rev 02)
00:0f.2 USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB (rev 12)
00:11.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-LE Host Bridge (rev 06)
00:11.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-LE Host Bridge (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro4 200/400 NVS] (rev a3)
02:08.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 14)
02:08.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 14)
02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments FireWire Controller (rev 01)
02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)

more /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/*

::::::::::::::
card
::::::::::::::
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Not Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000017:0x00000000
::::::::::::::
host-bridge
::::::::::::::
Host Bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-LE Host Bridge
Fast Writes: Not Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 2x 1x
Registers: 0x10000203:0x00000002
::::::::::::::
status
::::::::::::::
Status: Disabled

more /proc/driver/nvidia/version:

NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4363 Sat Apr 19 17:46:46 PDT 2003
GCC version: gcc-Version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)

(by the way, the '(' in '(SuSE ...' disturbs building of 4363 driver by interfering with the gcc_check test in the Makefile)

more /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0:
Model: Quadro NVS
IRQ: 30
Video BIOS: ??.??.??.??.??
Card Type: AGP

Any experience what I could try?
AGP settings? ...?

Ciao, Robert Divko

Hello
just in case someone has the same problem and is interested
in kind of a solution (from nvidia support):

setting
Option "NVAGP" "0"
in the screen section of the XF86Config file
"solves" the problem. At least the crash,
but what is the price regarding performance?
Unknown :( !)