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PostPosted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:49 pm 
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Recently installed r6 stable on an old PC using an AGP FX5200 card. I am using the tvout on the card and everytime that I restart the X server using killall X or ctrl-alt-backspace the system would try to reload the server and then panic or something. The log files did not show anything, and i was unable to use the magic sysrq keys after enabling them.

After messing around i figured it to be worth a shot to install the latest legacy drivers. after installing make, and running the 173.14.22 drivers installer from NVIDIA (maybe i'll make a pkgbuild) the display now works fine after reloading the X server.

Thought I would post this incase anyone else needed help with this!

Mike


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:00 am 
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Could you elaborate on how you installed make and how you got and ran the 173 drivers installer?
Thanks.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:57 pm 
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make is from the repo

as root or other user with access run:

pacman -Sy make

then I downloaded the 173 drivers from nvidia's site.

Stop X and xinit, and unload nvidia drivers as root run:

sv stop frontend
sv stop xinit
killall X

then run the nvidia installer

sh (path to the installers .run file)

It should run the rest automatically. Do not let it run nvidia-xconfig as it will make a new file, your old one should work.

Finally, reboot.

This should work as described. I am looking into creating a package with the 173 drivers, as this would be much more graceful.

Merry Christmas all!


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:47 am 
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That's weird.

I'm using an nVidia 5200FX out of the box with no problem.

I have TVout running in TwinView mode (Cloned) so I can see my desktop (set for 800x600) at the same time I watch on my projector.

I'll have to check my driver settings to see what it's using.

lspci says:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)


dmesg says:
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode


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