Re: Kernel 2.6, NVIDIA and 460GX
Hi everybody,
Just to let you know that something has changed again between kernel
2.6.11 and kernel 2.6.12-rc2, but in the right way this time. The NVIDIA
drivers 53.36/53.47 are working again on my hp workstation i2000 (first
generation Itanium CPU, Intel 460GX chipset) with a freshly recompiled
2.6.12-rc2 kernel. The NVIDIA drivers were previously broken since
kernel 2.6.7. Just a note: most of the 3D applications (with the notable
exception of glxinfo or glxgears) need that /usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1 be
preloaded through LD_PRELOAD or in /etc/ld.so.preload. If not preloaded,
I'm getting segfaults with signal 11. A cosmetic detail:
the /var/log/XFree86.0.log now says that AGP was successfully set to 1X
(with pre-2.6.7 kernels, AGP is set to 0X and with 2.4 kernels, it is
correctly set to 4X). I don't know if this information is relevant since
the glxgears or quake2 FPS are the same than with 2.4 kernels.
Have a nice day and thanks to David for the information.
Emeric
Le mercredi 20 avril 2005 à 14:11 -0700, David Mosberger a écrit :
> >>>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:51:31 +0100, maschino@jouy.inra.fr said:
>
> Emeric> Hello, I'm running Sarge (updated daily) on a hp workstation
> Emeric> i2000. It's equipped with a nVIDIA Quadro2 Pro graphics
> Emeric> adapter. I had no problem with nVIDIA drivers 1.0-5336 and
> Emeric> 1.0-5347 with 2.4.x kernels. There's however something wrong
> Emeric> with current 2.6.x kernels. More precisely, something has
> Emeric> changed between kernel 2.6.6 and 2.6.7. With kernel 2.6.6
> Emeric> (official+2.6.6 ia64 patch or
> Emeric> kernel-image-2.6.6-1-itanium-smp package), the nVIDIA
> Emeric> drivers compile and work flawlessly. With kernel 2.6.7
> Emeric> (official+2.6.7 ia64 patch or
> Emeric> kernel-image-2.6.7-1-itanium-smp package), the nVIDIA
> Emeric> drivers compile flawlessly, but as soon as 3D hardware is
> Emeric> requested (i.e. even a simple glxinfo), my system freezes
> Emeric> and a reboot is necessary. It seems that this problem only
> Emeric> affects workstations based on the Intel 460GX chipset as I
> Emeric> have evidences of people using post-2.6.7 kernel without a
> Emeric> problem on hp workstation zx2000. Any idea what's wrong?
>
> I already sent Emeric a message in private but I think it's useful to
> send this to debian-ia64 as well for the record: I finally got around
> to try an Nvidia Quadro 4 card in a Big Sur (which is basically the
> same as an i2000). The machine is also running Debian/sarge (as of
> about 2 weeks ago) and has kernel v2.6.12-rc2. Fortunately, the
> Nvidia v5336 driver worked as expected in this configuration. I tried
> glxinfo, glplanet, and glmatrix, and they all worked fine. I didn't
> try earlier kernels.
>
> The only problem I noticed is that the kernel gets stuck for a while
> during PCI initialization, trying to enable a PCI device which
> probably doesn't exist. After a few seconds, that times out though
> and the machine boots fine. This issue is unrelated to the Nvidia
> card as it happens even with a Matrox MGA card.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --david
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