NVidia not working this is my last resort

[IcyHell]

I have tried everything to get my NVidia Geforce4 ti 4600 to work with absolutly no succes! The two main error messages I get are (EE) no devices detected and (EE) no pages or something like that...if anybody has a clue what I'm talking about any help would be good...contact me anyway possible

[Sazar]

your system specs would be a GREAT help as well as the version of linux you are using

[IcyHell]

It's a Sony viao P4A 2.4Ghz, 512 mb of Ram, mandrake 9.0, Geforce4 Ti 4600, cd burner, dvd reader, and i guess that's about it...if that helps any

[bwkaz]

As well as the full X log -- /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Don't put it in a (set of) posts(s), just rename it to a .txt extension and attach it to your post. As well as the version driver you are using.

[IcyHell]

I've tryed about everything I could think of doing to my XF86Config file to get it to run after installing the new drivers. After running the "sh" file to determine which ones are best I wound up with NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up.i586.rpm and NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm maybe somehow these are wrong or I'm not seeing what the problem is but it always says
(EE) No devices detected and
Fatal server error: no screens found
I'll attach my log file so you can see everything since those messages one give a vague clue as to what's going wrong.
Whoever gets this and wants to help can also reach my on AIM as IcyH3ll if you would like, in any case thanks in advance.
(Note the XFree txt is the log just renamed)

[bwkaz]

I see this in the logs:

(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1039,0651 card 1043,8079 rev 01 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1039,0001 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 1039,0962 card 0000,0000 rev 04 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:5: chip 1039,5513 card 104d,8133 rev 00 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:6: chip 1039,7013 card 104d,8128 rev a0 class 07,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:7: chip 1039,7012 card 104d,8127 rev a0 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 1039,7001 card 104d,8133 rev 0f class 0c,03,10 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:03:1: chip 1039,7001 card 104d,8133 rev 0f class 0c,03,10 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:03:2: chip 1039,7001 card 104d,8133 rev 0f class 0c,03,10 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:03:3: chip 1039,7002 card 104d,8133 rev 00 class 0c,03,20 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:12:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 104d,80ea rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:13:0: chip 1033,00f2 card 104d,811e rev 01 class 0c,00,10 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1039,6325 card 104d,811c rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00

and I realize that none of those devices are nVidia ones. They're mostly SiS (mfr. ID 1039 is SiS), and a couple by someone else (10ec and 1033, I don't know who those are). nVidia is 10de, which doesn't show up anywhere.

Then, later, there is this:

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) SiS unknown chipset (0x6325) rev 0, Mem @ 0xf0000000/27, 0xeb800000/17, I/O @ 0xd800/7

which means that again, you have an SiS device there. This is bus 1 (AGP), device 0, subfunction 0, which is almost always your main graphics device. Which is reporting itself as an SiS.

Which is why the nVidia drivers can't find a device to drive -- there isn't one.

Do you have onboard video? If so, disable it in your BIOS and see if another device shows up.

Also check out /proc/pci for other stuff that the kernel sees. It is possible that the X scanpci module isn't seeing everything, though it's not likely.

Oh yeah, "PnP OS" should also be set to No if it it's Yes. It's in your BIOS as well. Since you appear to have onboard video, it is entirely possible that your BIOS thinks that the nVidia card is "non-essential" hardware, so it doesn't initialize it. Which means that nothing in Linux will see it. Turning PnP OS off will make the BIOS initialize all devices, which might help.