[wplug] Nvidia vs. ????

[Robert E. Coutch]

Man - I thought we had something there.
Then I did some checking.

I'm using the latest Nvidia driver 1.0-6111 which is reported to have support 
for 4k stacks.

I then thought I'd check the BIOS for the Assign IRQ to VGA, after all, my 
initial response to this setting is to disable it.
I googled this topic and found an article mentioning that high-end video cards 
need this enabled. I figured this MUST be the problem.

I went into BIOS and looked for the "Assign IRQ to VGA" setting.
I found NOTHING !!!!!
I hit the super secret CTL-F1 key combination to bring up the advanced BIOS 
options. I read about this in a forum and would probably never discovered it 
on my own since it's not mentioned anywhere in the manual or on the M.B. 
manufacture's web site.
Even still, I could find no option for Assign IRQ to VGA.
I even started to manually assign IRQ's hoping it might pop up somewhere - it 
didn't.

This is my first APIC motherboard so maybe there's something going on with 
that.

Unless I hear some other suggestions to try, I'm going to get (when extra $$ 
is on hand) an ATI 9200 video card and see if that works.


Thanks for the suggestions,

Bob


On Wednesday 22 September 2004 05:50 am, Carl Benedict wrote:
> As I stated earlier, the 2.6.x kernel that comes with FC2 has kernel
> options set that are not compatible with the NVIDIA proprietary
> drivers.  This was as of May 2004, when FC2 was released.  I have yet to
> attempt an update to my NVIDIA drivers since then.  I am not sure if
> they have released a driver set that would be compatible with the stock
> kernel of FC2.  Perhaps this is the problem you are experiencing.
>
> Here are a few links for FC2/NVIDIA related issues:
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30399&page=1&pp=15
>
> http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc2.shtml#nvidia
>
> That last one is someones blog-type page on their experiences getting
> NVIDIA drivers working with FC2.  It says :
>
> "As of 30 June 2004, the Nvidia 1.0-6106 has
> support for 4kstack kernels. Hence these problems most likely
> are resolved."
>
> So perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree?
>
>
> One other thing I recall giving me problems was that you need "Assign
> IRQ for VGA" enabled in your BIOS for things to work properly.  Since
> you replaced your mobo, I'd check that as well.
>
> HTH
>
> -- Carl
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 00:43, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > I installed FC2 tonight and gave it a try.
> >
> > Everything worked great until I switched to the proprietary Nvidia
> > driver. Then the same desktop freezing occurs just like with SuSE 9.1.
> >
> > If I had to make a guess, I'd say it's some issue with motherboard +
> > video card + nvidia drivers.
> >
> > I'm considering trying Mandrake 10 but guessing I'll get the same
> > results.
> >
> > It could be that the video card is drawing too much power from the M.B.
> > but that will require some volt metering while running some 3D app.
> >
> > It could be the power supply or an on board voltage regulator.
> >
> > I don't know if I should tear it all apart or just go out and get an ATI
> > 9200 and see what happens.
> >
> > -Bob
>
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