[WBEL-users] Slow X w/ nVidia Geforce2 MX 400 ??? [SOLVED]
Johnny Hughes
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On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 21:04, James Knowles wrote:
> >That's curious, if your X isn't working,
> >
>
> Yeah. That's what I expected, too. The X process was running, but the
> screen was pooched. Aparently X thought everything was fine. I suspect
> that there's some goofiness with the mobo's AGP that makes it *almost*
> work. Setting the NvAGP option to "1" uses nvidia's AGP code instead.
>
>
> Also, thanks for the grub info.
That motherboard board (MSI K7N2 Delta) has an NVIDIA Nforce2 chipset
... so if you don't have the kernel-unsupported package installed (or
haven't rebuilt your kernel), then the Nforce2 driver for agpgart is not
installed. You bypassed that with the NvAGP option ... which uses
Nvidia's agpgart installed with the driver software.
For anyone else having this problem, I created a guide to help install
the NVIDIA drivers on NFORCE2 motherboards for WBEL/CentOS/TaoLinux in
response to some problems people were having on the CentOS mailing list
a few weeks ago:
http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/34/2/Site_News
Johnny Hughes
HughesJR.com
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On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 21:04, James Knowles wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>>That's curious, if your X isn't working,
>
Yeah. That's what I expected, too. The X process was running, but the
screen was pooched. Aparently X thought everything was fine. I suspect
that there's some goofiness with the mobo's AGP that makes it *almost*
work. Setting the NvAGP option to "1" uses nvidia's AGP code instead.
Also, thanks for the grub info.</I></FONT></PRE>
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That motherboard board (<A HREF="http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=436">MSI K7N2 Delta</A>) has an NVIDIA Nforce2 chipset ... so if you don't have the kernel-unsupported package installed (or haven't rebuilt your kernel), then the Nforce2 driver for agpgart is not installed. You bypassed that with the NvAGP option ... which uses Nvidia's agpgart installed with the driver software.<BR>
<BR>
For anyone else having this problem, I created a <A HREF="http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/34/2/Site_News">guide</A> to help install the NVIDIA drivers on NFORCE2 motherboards for WBEL/CentOS/TaoLinux in response to some problems people were having on the CentOS mailing list a few weeks ago:<BR>
<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/34/2/Site_News">http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/34/2/Site_News</A><BR>
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