Re: [CLUE-Tech] GeForce4 Ti4200 and Linux / debian?
On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 02:35:01PM -0400, Adam Bultman wrote:
> I've got a Geforce4 440MX under Debian Woody. The standard nv drivers
> (that came with linux) didn't work, and I had no X (although my GF2 worked
> well). I downloaded, compiled, and installed the ones from nvidia
> (http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux). Now I have X, but I pretty
> much have no console. Any attempts to go outside X (i.e. the terminals ,
> like Alt-F1, etc) causes my system to display no video. My monitor
> (Hitachi) will report a 69 Hz refresh rate. I can still SSH in, but any
> attempts to do anything locally dies.
>
> So, you can get X, but you really can't do much else, if you don't always
> use X (like me). As well, rebooting causes problems (i guess it doesn't
> unmount / correctly, and will fsck every time). But at least you'll have
> drivers.
Beware: I would not read much into this for the following reason:
The Geforce4 440MX is closer to a Geforce 2 than a Geforce4 Ti4200. The
Geforce4 MX's should never have been called Geforce4's: they are really
Geforce2 technology with a new memory interface.
Therefore I would really not let this report put you off getting a
Geforce4 Ti4200: you shouldn't have any problems with the Ti4200 (or
higher).
Adam, have you tried appending vga=ask to your boot line and then trying
to select different modes? It may be that the drivers/card simply don't
like certain modes. It's odd though that changing the drivers should
have this affect: on my TNT2 M64 here, the drivers don't get loaded
*until* I start up X. Or are you saying that console is fine until you
start X, and after that you can't get back to a real console?
You could exit X, and then type (blindly, as root) 'rmmod nvidia'. That
may help (or may not!).
Matthew
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