GeForce MX 4000 - linux driver

[tke]

Hello,

Please excuse my bad english, I'll try to explain my problem best as I can.
I just bought nvidia Geforce MX 4000, it seemed kind of cheap, only 80$, plus it said on the box that it has linux support?, so what a heck, I went for it..

Well, after I booted to my Slackware 9.1, I went to XFree (xf86cfg -textmode) configuration and could not find nv Geforce MX 4000 on the list of the drivers. So I tried almost every single driver for Geforce MX cards that was on that list, but I got always same error: device does not exists for selected driver. So after that, I went to nvidia.com, downloaded latest driver pack for linux, installed it (it recompiled some parts of my kernel), and followed the instructions in README file, so I opened my XFree86 config file with text editor (pico ), and changed vendor to 'nvidia' instead of 'nv', but still I could not get into X beacuse there is no driver for my card. By that I mean there is no 'MX 4000' on the list of drivers in xf86cfg.

Could anyone please explain to me how to get this card working with GNU/Linux distro (slackware in my case), so I don't have to change the card.

Any help appreciated

Sincerely, tmike

[Thunderbird]

Make sure your xfree86 version or nvidia driver version is new enough. The MX4000 should be supported, note that the MX4000 isn't a very great card. Basicly it is a rebranded Geforce4MX. For the same price or even less you could have had a GeforceFX 5200...

[Kamel]

Originally Posted by Thunderbird

Make sure your xfree86 version or nvidia driver version is new enough. The MX4000 should be supported, note that the MX4000 isn't a very great card. Basicly it is a rebranded Geforce4MX. For the same price or even less you could have had a GeforceFX 5200...

... not that the 5200 is any better of a card though

[tke]

It's not working.

I tried almost every driver that there is in XFree list of drivers (xf86cfg -textmode), and I even tried to put manually driver name "GeForce MX 4000"

Here is full XFree86.0.log output


_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/zeljko:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

XFree86 Version 4.4.0
Release Date: 29 February 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.26 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux zeljko 2.4.22 #6 Tue Sep 2 17:43:01 PDT 2003 i686
Build Date: 28 April 2004
Changelog Date: 29 February 2004
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat May 29 19:15:19 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
(==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) | |-->Device "Card0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
(**) XKB: model: "pc101"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.7
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.7
(--) using VT number 7

(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x00000000, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,2560 card 1043,8093 rev 01 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 8086,2562 card 1043,8093 rev 01 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:0: chip 8086,24c2 card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1d:1: chip 8086,24c4 card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:2: chip 8086,24c7 card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:7: chip 8086,24cd card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 0c,03,20 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card 0000,0000 rev 81 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,24c0 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,24cb card 1043,8089 rev 01 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:5: chip 8086,24c5 card 1043,8098 rev 01 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:09:0: chip 10de,0185 card 0000,0000 rev a4 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:0a:0: chip 100b,0020 card 1385,f311 rev 00 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:0d:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 1043,805b rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[b]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x000e (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b0ff (0x100) IX[b]
[1] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b4ff (0x100) IX[b]
[2] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x0000bc00 - 0x0000bcff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xdc000000 - 0xde7fffff (0x2800000) MX[b]
(II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xdff00000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x8100000) MX[b]
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(--) PCI: (0:2:0) Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated Graphics Device rev 1, Mem @ 0xe8000000/27, 0xdf000000/19
(--) PCI:*(1:9:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x0185) rev 164, Mem @ 0xdd000000/24, 0xe0000000/27, BIOS @ 0xdffe0000/17
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
[1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[b]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[b](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[b]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
[5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xf0000000 from 0xf7ffffff to 0xefffffff
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xdc000000 - 0xdc0000ff (0x100) MX[b]
[1] -1 0 0xdc800000 - 0xdc800fff (0x1000) MX[b]
[2] -1 0 0x10000200 - 0x100002ff (0x100) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x100001ff (0x200) MX[b]
[4] -1 0 0xdb800000 - 0xdb8003ff (0x400) MX[b]
[5] -1 0 0xde800000 - 0xde8003ff (0x400) MX[b]
[6] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
[7] -1 0 0xdffe0000 - 0xdfffffff (0x20000) MX[b](B)
[8] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[b](B)
[9] -1 0 0xdd000000 - 0xddffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
[10] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b4ff (0x100) IX[b]
[11] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[b]
[12] -1 0 0x0000e100 - 0x0000e13f (0x40) IX[b]
[13] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e0ff (0x100) IX[b]
[14] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x0000940f (0x10) IX[b]
[15] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009800 (0x1) IX[b]
[16] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a000 (0x1) IX[b]
[17] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a400 (0x1) IX[b]
[18] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a800 (0x1) IX[b]
[19] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d01f (0x20) IX[b]
[20] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[b]
[21] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[b]
(II) Inactive PCI resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xdf000000 - 0xdf07ffff (0x80000) MX[b](B)
[1] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[b](B)
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
[0] -1 0 0xdc000000 - 0xdc0000ff (0x100) MX[b]
[1] -1 0 0xdc800000 - 0xdc800fff (0x1000) MX[b]
[2] -1 0 0x10000200 - 0x100002ff (0x100) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x100001ff (0x200) MX[b]
[4] -1 0 0xdb800000 - 0xdb8003ff (0x400) MX[b]
[5] -1 0 0xde800000 - 0xde8003ff (0x400) MX[b]
[6] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
[7] -1 0 0xdffe0000 - 0xdfffffff (0x20000) MX[b](B)
[8] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[b](B)
[9] -1 0 0xdd000000 - 0xddffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
[10] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b4ff (0x100) IX[b]
[11] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[b]
[12] -1 0 0x0000e100 - 0x0000e13f (0x40) IX[b]
[13] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e0ff (0x100) IX[b]
[14] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x0000940f (0x10) IX[b]
[15] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009800 (0x1) IX[b]
[16] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a000 (0x1) IX[b]
[17] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a400 (0x1) IX[b]
[18] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a800 (0x1) IX[b]
[19] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d01f (0x20) IX[b]
[20] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[b]
[21] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[b]
(II) Inactive PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
[0] -1 0 0xdf000000 - 0xdf07ffff (0x80000) MX[b](B)
[1] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[b](B)
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[b](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x0fffffff (0xff00000) MX[b]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
[5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) All system resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[b](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x0fffffff (0xff00000) MX[b]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
[5] -1 0 0xdc000000 - 0xdc0000ff (0x100) MX[b]
[6] -1 0 0xdc800000 - 0xdc800fff (0x1000) MX[b]
[7] -1 0 0x10000200 - 0x100002ff (0x100) MX[b]
[8] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x100001ff (0x200) MX[b]
[9] -1 0 0xdb800000 - 0xdb8003ff (0x400) MX[b]
[10] -1 0 0xde800000 - 0xde8003ff (0x400) MX[b]
[11] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
[12] -1 0 0xdffe0000 - 0xdfffffff (0x20000) MX[b](B)
[13] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[b](B)
[14] -1 0 0xdd000000 - 0xddffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
[15] -1 0 0xdf000000 - 0xdf07ffff (0x80000) MX[b](B)
[16] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[b](B)
[17] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
[18] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
[19] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b4ff (0x100) IX[b]
[20] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[b]
[21] -1 0 0x0000e100 - 0x0000e13f (0x40) IX[b]
[22] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e0ff (0x100) IX[b]
[23] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x0000940f (0x10) IX[b]
[24] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x00009800 (0x1) IX[b]
[25] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a000 (0x1) IX[b]
[26] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a400 (0x1) IX[b]
[27] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a800 (0x1) IX[b]
[28] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d01f (0x20) IX[b]
[29] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[b]
[30] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[b]
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a
(II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
(II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension FontCache
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "type1"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a
(II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.2
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) Loading font CID
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a
(II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project & the After X-TT Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 2.1.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "speedo"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a
(II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.1
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Speedo
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.5336
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:30:46 PST 2004
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:09:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(WW) NVIDIA: Chipset "GeForce4 MX 4000" in Device section "Card0" isn't valid for this driver
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
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[Thunderbird]

Could you attach your XF86Config file too so I can verify some things? It might be that the driver doesn't recognize it but I want to verify it as the error might mean something else.

Atleast it contains a few bad things like the loading of GLcore and it seems there's some old libglx.a file (read non-nvidia) left.
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension GLX