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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2004 11:17 am 
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Just going through the set up on R4v3 this weekend. Nice set up overall.

I have about the crummiest hardware around, because it was FREE.

ECS L7VMM3+ mobo with integrated AMD Athlon, on board sound and NIC

Jaton cloned nVidia GF 4 MX 440 with SVIDEO and Composite TV-outs.

The install goes fine, ALSA starts fine, the NIC grabs and IP via DHCP. Apt-get appears to function fine with the db updates and extra sites. Even installed some other software I consider personal tools (emacs, etc.)

However, the nvidia-install.sh script that installs the nVidia IA32 v4363 driver set is the problem.

It installs OK but when I mod XF86Config-4 to use the new driver, crash city -- the system locks up hard, forcing a reset (via console).

Interestingly, the 5328 version driver works fine on a vanilla Knoppix knx2hd install (autodetect hardware install -- not old debian).

I'd like to try that 5328 driver with your kernel. I downloaded it from nVidia but can't stop the X server to run the install (required).

Tried changing /etc/inittab default runlevel, tried su'ing an init 3 or 2 command...nothing.

HELP


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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2004 11:31 am 
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/etc/init.d/gdm stop

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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2004 1:08 pm 
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only thing to remember is you won't be able to use tvout overscan with that version of the nvidia driver.


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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2004 9:55 pm 
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did you move the XFree86-4.nvidia-tvout... file to XFree86-4, if you do that, then you only need to make minor changes at all.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:41 am 
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cesman wrote:
/etc/init.d/gdm stop


Cesman and others...

Thank you for the quick replies. The problem was MY fault. I had turned off giving the AGP card a PCI IRQ in BIOS, so the card was not present as far as the driver was concerned.

Setting the BIOS up correctly allows the 4363 driver to work fine, including the TV out functionality with overscan, etc.


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