Bug 12052 – Nvidia drivers 1.0.4191 possibly not working well with Geforce2

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) 2002-12-12 16:57:22 UTC]

Tried the 1.0.4191 NVIDIA drivers yesterday, and the driver didn't work very
well.  X started, but would freeze for 5-10 seconds every once in a while.  Not
sure where the problem lies; I guess this is just a heads-up  not to remove the
~arch flag for now.

I'm using vanilla-sources 2.4.20, and the video card has GeForce2 MX chip.

[Comment 1 Alex 2002-12-13 08:31:57 UTC]

I am running the 4191 driver with the 2.5.51 kernel (used the 2.5 patch from
http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html) and everything seems to work fine
(xscreensaver 3d seems faster). I'm using a Asus 7100 32Mb (Geforce 2/MX).

Cya lX

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-13 23:32:53 UTC]

Same here (work fine, also V7100).  Try to play with agpgart/nvdia's gart
drivers ?

[Comment 3 Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) 2002-12-14 14:46:22 UTC]

Hmm, I also have the ASUS 7100.  I have not tried AGPGART, at least not
knowingly.  I'll try to look around and see what that is. ;^)

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-17 07:24:01 UTC]

Kernel AGP driver.  You can try either the kernel's agp driver, or the one
supplied with the nvidia drivers .. check the README with the glx drivers
for more info ...

[Comment 5 David Henry 2002-12-21 22:00:38 UTC]

Im also having problems with 4191. After leaving the computer on over night it
locks up every time. It seems to happen after the screen blanks. Im using the
latest gentoo-sources with acpi compiled in and kernel agpgart on a Geforce 4
ti4200. Had no problems at all with the previous nvidia drivers.

[Comment 6 Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) 2002-12-22 07:51:22 UTC]

Okay, I figured the performance side of the problem out by forcing 

     Option  "NvAGP" "1" # "3" works too.

However, now I am having other sort of problems.  I am having the mouse coursor
replaced by some rectangular texture once in a while, and sometimes the graphics
isn't displayed properly (some noise occurs in some applications, for example,
asclock).  Also, my set up for launching xine in a separate X server on the
TV-out doesn't work anymore.

I will try to investigate a little further before switching back to the previous
version.

[Comment 7 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-04-20 04:25:34 UTC]

have you all tried the newest 4-series nvidia driver? and if so, what news?

[Comment 8 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-08-04 13:56:03 UTC]

Try the latest version, and reopen if still issues.