Nvidia working problem

[zensaber]

OK installed but when ever I or the nvidia driver changes the nv in my config to nvidia i get a black screen when i reload x. Any one know what i could add to my xorg config to fix or somthing? Please I want to play games T.T

Distro: SuSe 10
Video Card: Geforce 6800 GS agp 256

[far.right]

I am interested in your issue because I am considering that exact same card for my linux workstation and I'm not sure how well supported it will be.

You should take a look at (or post) your xorg log file after one of the black screen events to see what errors are being generated. Find it in /var/log/xorg.0.log.

I'll tell you what I would try and if it works please tell me, and I will go ahead and buy my own GS. This post might get kinda dry - feel free to supplement it with beer. I have highlighted my suggested changes to your xorg.conf in blue.

What driver are you using? Try and get a recent driver if you don't already have one.

First off, you probably need to disable DRI (I had to to get my 6600 working), so comment out 'Load "dri"' from Section "Modules" and comment out the entire Section "DRI". So you will have commented out the following as such:


Section "Module"
...
# Load "dri"

...

#Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
#EndSection


Restart your X server, or reboot, and give that a try and see if it works. If not, there's something else we can try...

See, the 6800 GS AGP Chip ID (0x0047) isn't listed in the Linux Driver Supported Chipsets appendix. I am not sure if the omission is accidental or not, but one could take it to mean that the AGP version of the 6800 GS is just not supported (because everyone is hating on AGP nowadays).

However, the AGP GS is essentially just a GT with a different ROM. They are both NV40. In fact, if you probe the GS with RivaTuner (in windows) it will report that it's hardwired ID is actually 0x0045 and has been ROM strapped to 0x0047!

Soooo, you can use xorg.conf to tell the nvidia driver that your card is in fact a GT and it might stop throwing fits. I successfully used this method to make my ATI fglrx driver think my (unsupported) R481 X850 was an R480 X850. You do this by manually specifying a ChipID in the "Device" section like this:


Section "Device"
...
ChipID 0x0045
EndSection


Add exactly that to your xorg.conf and restart X or reboot and cross your fingers. It should have a high probability of working.

Again, if these methods work, please let me know. Also let me know if they don't work so I can pass on the GS and go pay way too much for a GT.

[zensaber]

well the latest nvidia linux driver came out dec 22 2005 while the 6800gs agp came out in jan 2006

[netllama]

Please generate and post a bug report.

Thanks,
Lonni

[vrode]

Originally Posted by far.right

I am interested in your issue because I am considering that exact same card for my linux workstation and I'm not sure how well supported it will be.

You should take a look at (or post) your xorg log file after one of the black screen events to see what errors are being generated. Find it in /var/log/xorg.0.log.

I'll tell you what I would try and if it works please tell me, and I will go ahead and buy my own GS. This post might get kinda dry - feel free to supplement it with beer. I have highlighted my suggested changes to your xorg.conf in blue.

What driver are you using? Try and get a recent driver if you don't already have one.

First off, you probably need to disable DRI (I had to to get my 6600 working), so comment out 'Load "dri"' from Section "Modules" and comment out the entire Section "DRI". So you will have commented out the following as such:


Section "Module"
...
# Load "dri"

...

#Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
#EndSection


Restart your X server, or reboot, and give that a try and see if it works. If not, there's something else we can try...

See, the 6800 GS AGP Chip ID (0x0047) isn't listed in the Linux Driver Supported Chipsets appendix. I am not sure if the omission is accidental or not, but one could take it to mean that the AGP version of the 6800 GS is just not supported (because everyone is hating on AGP nowadays).

However, the AGP GS is essentially just a GT with a different ROM. They are both NV40. In fact, if you probe the GS with RivaTuner (in windows) it will report that it's hardwired ID is actually 0x0045 and has been ROM strapped to 0x0047!

Soooo, you can use xorg.conf to tell the nvidia driver that your card is in fact a GT and it might stop throwing fits. I successfully used this method to make my ATI fglrx driver think my (unsupported) R481 X850 was an R480 X850. You do this by manually specifying a ChipID in the "Device" section like this:


Section "Device"
...
ChipID 0x0045
EndSection


Add exactly that to your xorg.conf and restart X or reboot and cross your fingers. It should have a high probability of working.
Again, if these methods work, please let me know. Also let me know if they don't work so I can pass on the GS and go pay way too much for a GT.

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I have a similar problem except in my case I have nvidia geforce go 6800. Would I need to specify ChipID as well? If so would you happen to know the ID or can point me in the right direction? my lspci doesn't list it

regards,
/virendra

[zensaber]

I don't know myself, but i switched from suse to fedora 4 to see if that might help.

[far.right]

vrode - as far as I can tell, the geforce go 6800 is supported by the linux driver. You might just have a xorg configuration problem. take a look at the README and try to get it setup right.


zensaber - I take it you tried specifying the ChipID in xorg.conf and it didn't work?