[Sderby] Re: NVidia Binary > DB's Response

[Mr Laurie L Proud]

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 12:17, David Bottrill wrote:

Hello Mike & David,

Thank-you for your reply. On investigation I see that actually what has 
been installed is the Nvidia Binary driver version 1.0.4496, which is 
fetched as part of the SuSE 8.2 on-line-update, post install.
...........

Mar 20 22:19:04 linux kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o 
Kernel Module  1.0-4496  Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003

Mar 20 22:19:04 linux insmod: Warning: loading 
/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will taint the 
kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA

Mar 20 22:19:04 linux insmod:   See 
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted 
modules

Mar 20 22:19:04 linux insmod: Module nvidia loaded, with warnings

The above is snipped from my boot messages. We did go to the NVidia 
website and downloaded the latest version, but we seem to have run the
"geeky Script" on the wrong file. I.e the old one not the new one, version
1.0.7167 which was found untouched in ROOT's home directory.

The installed kernal is back to the original 2.4.20 - Everything work's 
fine except the X-Server falls over at machine shut down.

I have spoken to Paul J this evening and we are going to have another 
attempt on Sunday. We will get an updated kernal source proberbly via 
SuSE's on line update. Can I double check the commands with you. 

1) cd /usr/src/linux

make cloneconfig & & make dep

2) sh NVIDIA-Linux-X86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run -q

3) sax2 -m 0=nvidia

Can you please confirm whether this needs to be done with the X-XERVER
NOT running. We ran it first time in a KDE console .........readme's 
suggest this was a mistake, but are not conclusive.

this should hook the new kernal into the updated Nvidia driver with luck.

I have no idea why the old driver was used instead of the new one.

Yes indeed, the card worked perfectly under Windose, it also worked 
perfectly under SuSE 9.2, but haven't the cycles or memory to drag the 
bloat about on this machine. SuSE 8.2 seems faster & complements the 
available hardware IMHO.

Thank's for the hand holding. I will keep you posted

Regards Laurie


> Mr Laurie L Proud said:
> > Well almost ...........On log out and system shut down the X-Server
> > falls over. Think it should switch into SVGA to show shut down script
> > in verbose, but have flashing blocks, just like an old Spectrum crash
> > !
> >
> > Fortuneatly the shut down script executes properly and the system
> > halts normally, but I cannot see the verbose shutdown as normal.
>
> I had this problem with a grotty cheap and nasty nvidia card I had at
> one time, so I snuck this card into my wife's PC where it works ok on
> Windows.
>
> The only solution I can think of is to start the computer up in native
> mode not quiet or verbose that way it will be in VGA mode and will not
> be using a framebuffer. I think this is a combination of the version of
> Xfree / Xorg you are running and the version of the Nvidia driver.
>
> Like I have said before use an up to date version of software as
> possible as most odd bugs like this will be fixed. To my recollection
> the card may have worked correctly in SuSE 9.2 with xorg whereas it was
> giving me problems with xfree86 that was used by SuSE in versions prior
> to 9.2
>
> David

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