A7N266-VM : Geforce 2 MX Onboard : Freeze at NVIDIA Logo

[netllama]

This looks alot like the symptoms of faulty hardware.

[rahuljawale]

whoa! Please dont say that. She is my beloved machine. Moreover it works fine in Windows.

Could you suggest any tests that could be done in Windows to confirm this issue?

[netllama]

Sorry, I'm not familiar enough with Windows to recommend anything.

I'd like to see a new bug report generated with NvAGP=0.

Also, have you verified that you're using the latest motherboard BIOS?

[rahuljawale]

Oh, yes sure. I will post it.

About BIOS, this motherboard was phased out long ago in 2003. . So what I am using right now is the latest stable BIOS available.

[rahuljawale]

I have attached bug report for 1.0.9643.

Also I found this error in nvidia-installer log.

echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are
mis
sing."; \

Could it matter here?

[netllama]

No, what warning is harmless if the driver installed successfully.

In your bug report, I see a large number of these errors:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***

Have you tried reducing the ATP aperture in the BIOS?
Does this problem persist if you're not using the TripleBuffer option?

[rahuljawale]

So you want me to reduce AGP aperture size in BIOS? And disable Triple Buffer in xorg.conf?

[netllama]

Correct.

[Licaon]

old story

these errors were introduced in 9625beta-october 2006 and they're still not fixed (one year passed...w00t)

status:
1.0-8776 works fine
1.0-9625beta corrupted screen/hard lock
1.0-9742beta Installer warns me that my video card is not supported by the driver, yet i did not see anything mentioned in the Changelog, and the README says my card is supported. Loading the module would yield a similar error.
1.0-9629/9631/9639/9643: logo + freez or if i move the mouse i might get it to enter into GNOME/Xfce, but the screen is corrupted, after a minute or so, X will crash back to a screen corrupted GDM, Xid errors, w/ or w/o composite

see dedicated thread (it gets interesting from page 7)

@rahuljawale: your only chance is driver 8776+patch
the patch is needed for the driver to compile on newer kernels.
it works, at least you'll have a working driver (no Compiz/Beryl, but OpenGL/composite)

[rahuljawale]

hey Licaon, thanks for the information. I had came across this magical 8776 and the patch for newer kernels. But since going by the info you provided , 8776 seems to be the only way out. But man, it's sad to know that i cannot use Beryl/Compiz. That was the main motive for me to install Nvidia drivers. Anyways. Will give it a shot and let you know. Moreover there are few more like me who have been facing this trouble.

Here is the link to the thread that I came across:
GeForce2 0x01a0 & 96.43.01 works badly

One question before leaving, why isn't NVIDIA fixing this issue?

[rahuljawale]

Licaon, I tried that. But at nvidia-installer throws up an error whenever i try to run patched installation. Error is:

rahul@rahul-desktop:~/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1$ sudo sh nvidia*
nvidia-installer: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

[AaronP]

nvidia-installer is a binary executable, not a shell script. Just run "sudo ./nvidia-installer".