02-18-03, 02:04 PM
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TFT turns black after startx, nothing happens (MDK90)
Hi all,
I've get no success after two days hard trying, so does anybody have a glue what should I try next. When I startx the display only turns black and only softly flashes two times then nothing happens. If I try to see the monitors On Screen Display it shows that it is in 800x600 60Hz (+,+) mode. My Monitor is AG Neovo F-17 (17" TFT LCD display) It is specified like this: Max resolution SXGA 1280x1024 Display Color 16.7M Frequency: Horiz: 30-80kHz Freq. Vert: 50-75Hz Max Pixel Clock 135MHz My Graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce4 128M 440 AXP 8x (as you can see in the log I enclosed) I attached Config and log files.
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02-18-03, 03:58 PM
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Well, try to downgrade the driver version! In my case only the 2960-drivers worked.
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02-19-03, 05:58 AM
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Can't downgrade because my Linux is Mandrake 9.0.
There is drivers only for 8.2.
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02-19-03, 06:59 AM
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Try setting you vertical refresh rate to 60Hz in your XF86Config file.
Some TFT monitors have problems with the vertical refresh when it's set too high. IE. Remove this line: VertRefresh 50-75 And replace it with: VertRefresh 60 |
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02-19-03, 07:55 AM
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Quote:
You need kernel-source installed first, though, along with gcc and make (and probably others).
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02-19-03, 02:58 PM
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OK, I downloaded and installed the 3123 packages.
Now it seems that the /dev/nvidia([0-3]|ctl) files is missing. I tried to run the makedevices.sh but it does not help any. Is there a way to create these dev files?
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02-19-03, 04:06 PM
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"but it does not help any"
Well, you run Mandrake 9, which means you use devfs. Which means that makedevices isn't going to create anything; you have to actually load the kernel module to see the devices. Try a modprobe NVdriver and see if they show up.
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02-21-03, 12:55 PM
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Finally success
I finally got it working (well at least I got the KDE up).
I manually removed all the 4191 stuff (by the NVIDIA-LINUX-README) and reinstalled the 3123 release from the tar file, then suddenly - it worked. The mouse freezes after few minutes mut I think it is annother matter. Thank's to all who helped me.
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