Biostar GeForce 210 revisited

[RAMChYLD]

Well, the 8400GS died on me and I'm back to this GeForce 210 video card on said Linux box.

Now, as I said before, this card has an identity crisis (it thinks it's a G210). It also refuses to play nice with drivers newer than 197.45.

Now, this box is now on Debian Sid, NVidia drivers 295.49.

Booting xorg now hangs at a black screen as soon as GDM is invoked. When I last used it, it refuses to even boot into X, spewing a bunch of error messages. Now nothing- it just appears to try to work, then... nothing. It just freezes with a blank screen.

RMAing this card is impossible as I did not buy this card locally. Malaysia has no Biostar graphics card distributors (the 8400GS took a lot of coaxing to the motherboard distributor to get, and even then they refused to do it again when it came time to buy the 210).

[johnc]

When you were getting error messages, what were they complaining about? You're saying there's something wrong with the card?

I do have a 210 myself but it's from Zotac.

[RAMChYLD]

Originally Posted by johnc

When you were getting error messages, what were they complaining about? You're saying there's something wrong with the card?

I do have a 210 myself but it's from Zotac.

My last complaint was on this thread: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=162542

[   129.325] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:4:0:0.  Please
[   129.325] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     check your system's kernel log for additional error
[   129.325] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common Problems in the
[   129.325] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
[   129.325] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!

Kernel log says:

[   33.851322] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x28:1050)
[   33.851345] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
[  129.325643] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x28:1050)
[  129.325654] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed

That was with the 270.41.06 drivers. With the 295.xx drivers, there's no error- it'd just appear to try to initialize the card and the screen would go black, and then it'd freeze and stay on the black screen until I hit reset.