Re: Video Card and Hard Drives
Unk McThunderpants wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Etch with kernel 2.6.18-4-686 and KDE on a Toshiba TE2100 (tecra),
and I'm having some issues with my video card.
It's an nVidia GeForce4 420 GO, which is, as far as I know, supported by the
Legacy nvidia drivers.
I've tried the NV driver for XOrg, the proprietary nVidia drivers (legacy and
not) from the website as well as the nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-legacy
packages. The non-legacy packages all don't work at all, and the legacy ones
only give me a max resolution of 800x600. when I use the VESA driver for Xorg
I can get 1024x768 which is, according to the spec sheet, what the screen can
handle up to.
the problem with this is that the neither the NV or vesa drivers seem to have
any 3D acceleration etc. (I know it's only got 16MB of VRAM... but I'm not
trying to play oblivion here :-P )
Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to remedy this?
I have a TE2100 also, dual boot Sid/WinXP (I replaced it 6 months ago
and it's now logging a weather station under WinXP - can't get the
software to work under Linux).
It runs Sid with a 2.6.22-1-686 kernel and Gnome. The 7185 legacy
package compiles and installs.
You'll need to make sure all the Debian nvidia packages are purged first.
The installer says you need the kernel source but all you need is the
headers for your kernel.
Install the module, change the xorg.conf file driver from "nv" to "nvidia".
There is a problem with the way the driver reads the display "Extended
Display Identification Data" (EDID) which results in the 800x600 display.
Add to the Device section:
Option "ignoreEDID" "true"
Also I was wondering if there are any compatibility issues with using USB Hard
drives that anyone knows of, or are they all fine? I'm assuming that they
just show up as Mass Storage Devices or something, but before I go out and
spend $150 on one, I thought I might just ask...
The only problem I found with USB drives, including thumb drives, is the
USB 1.1 interface. At 12mb/s it's chronically slow, taking me 10 hours
to do a backup.
I bought a 2 port USB 2.0 pcmcia card, which then needed an external
power supply. One of the reasons I replaced the TE2100 was the failure
of the pcmcia with that card, brought on when I tripped over the power
supply cord and overloaded the pcmcia bus.
Been away for a few weeks, hence the delayed response.
Hope this helps,
Tim
thanks a lot in advance
Nik
p.s. In case it helps, here's some outputs...
$ lspci -v
[...]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go]
(rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at dbf80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at dbf00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
[...]
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
[....]
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
[...]
Section "Device"
Identifier "GeForce 420 Go"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
[...]
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "GeForce 420 Go"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
[...]
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