openGL problems with QuadroFX 3400

[alvarad]

We are having some problems getting the nvidia drivers to work properly on a new system running Suse 9.3. Our system is a Dell Precision 670n with a QuadroFX 3400 256MB card and two Dell 1905FP LCDs. One problem is that TwinView is not working but we are also having several other problems with the actual nvidia driver.

We installed the most recent driver update through YOU updates in YAST2 and we dutifully edited the xorg.conf file to use Driver "nvidia", Load "glx", and ensured that the "dri" and "glcore" were not loaded. For some time we would get a black screen when starting X but after 5 reinstallations of Suse we now seem to be avoiding that.

Our problem now is that even though the nvidia driver loads, the system does not seem to be using the nvidia glx libraries. It is still loading the Mesa openGL. The results of ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears are here:

libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x00002aaaaabc2000)
libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXp.so.6 (0x00002aaaaad66000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00002aaaaae70000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaf81000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002aaaab190000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00002aaaab2a6000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaab3fd000)
libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0x00002aaaab623000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab729000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)

One problem we see is that libGLcore.so.1 does not show up there. We have seen many posts online about problems with the nvidia drivers and the resulting black screens, but there have been no reasonable solutions that we have seen so far. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Thunderbird]

Just search your system for all libGL.* (so, a ..) and the same for all libGLcore files. Remove all those files and reinstall the nvidia drivers. In most cases it works fine then if mesa stuff was around. (check /usr/lib, /usr/lib64, /usr/X11R6/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions and so on)

[netllama]

alvarad,
Please see here for instructions on how to properly install the NVIDIA driver in SuSE-9.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/sup...taller-HOWTO#4

You should not need to edit xorg.conf.

If you're still having problems with TwinView after (re)installing the nvidia driver per the instructions above, please generate & attach an nvidia-bug-report.log for review and detail how the problem can be reproduced.

Thanks,
Lonni

[alvarad]

Originally Posted by Thunderbird

Just search your system for all libGL.* (so, a ..) and the same for all libGLcore files. Remove all those files and reinstall the nvidia drivers. In most cases it works fine then if mesa stuff was around. (check /usr/lib, /usr/lib64, /usr/X11R6/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions and so on)

Thank you but this caused us to get the black screen again. We can now only boot using "nv" driver.

[alvarad]

Originally Posted by netllama

alvarad,
Please see here for instructions on how to properly install the NVIDIA driver in SuSE-9.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/sup...taller-HOWTO#4

You should not need to edit xorg.conf.

If you're still having problems with TwinView after (re)installing the nvidia driver per the instructions above, please generate & attach an nvidia-bug-report.log for review and detail how the problem can be reproduced.

Thanks,
Lonni

Lonni -
Thanks for the information. We have tried to install using the directions you sent many times over the last two weeks. We did the install again just now using first YOU updates. Result: black screen when Driver set to "nvidia". Then we tried to install by downloading the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7676-pkg2.run driver and compiling the kernel. Result: black screen.

WE CAN ONLY BOOT USING "nv" DRIVER.

Attached are the nvidia-bug-report.log and the nvidia-installer.log.

Thanks.

[netllama]

alvarad,
The bug report shows that your system is still using the 'nv' driver, which is known not to work with the Quadro FX3400. As such, your bug report didn't capture what is happening when you start X with the nvidia driver.
What command are you issuing that results in a 'black screen'? What are the results from running this command?
sax2 -m 0=nvidia

Thanks,
Lonni

[alvarad]

Originally Posted by netllama

alvarad,
The bug report shows that your system is still using the 'nv' driver, which is known not to work with the Quadro FX3400. As such, your bug report didn't capture what is happening when you start X with the nvidia driver.
What command are you issuing that results in a 'black screen'? What are the results from running this command?
sax2 -m 0=nvidia

Thanks,
Lonni

a black screen. We cannot even ssh into the machine when it is hung. So we cannot possibly capture the bug report when booting with nvidia driver.

[netllama]

If the system is hanging, please setup a serial console to capture any kernel messages that might be getting generated when this problem occurs. Also, you might want to try updating the kernel you're using as its not the most recent that SuSE has released for 9.3.

Thanks,
Lonni