[wplug] Nvidia vs. ???? : SOLVED

[Robert E. Coutch]

I switched my PNY GeForce 4 MX 420 video card to an ATI Redeon 9200 today.
The difference is AMAZING and my freezing desktop problem seems to be gone.

No more proprietary drivers on my system. I am fully open source now.
No more tainted kernel, etc.

The new card is double the memory and AGP speed of the old one.
Graphics (3D) look great and Enemy Territory plays better than ever.

I am once again a happy camper.


Thanks for the tips and info,

Bob


On Wednesday 22 September 2004 11:41 pm, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> 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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