Weird problem with nforce2

Weird problem with nforce2

[Markus Hästbacka]

Hi all,
I just bought a new motherboard, CPU and RAM. With the last computer 
everything worked fine under 2.4 and 2.6. Now it's not that way any 
more. I can run 2.4.22, but it's slow (All of 2.4 series kernel's I 
tested seem to be slow), then I hooked up 2.6.0-test4, booted, 
everything looked fine, but then when I tryed to install NVIDIA drivers, 
I get many errors about nv_kern_read_agpinfo, yes, I tested 
2.6.0-test1-3 too, but when I boot the IRQ #19 get's some errors, but in 
2.6.0-test4 no errors in boot, but I can't compile nvidia card drivers! 
This may be off-topic, but I think this is the best way for getting 
help. (Yes, I patched nvidia_kernel too, so it's not about that, and the 
same package worked on old computer really well, with the same graphic 
card). My chipset is NForce2, and needs NVIDIA NForce/NForce2 so the agp 
can work with full power. Thank you.

Re: Weird problem with nforce2

[Rahul Karnik]

Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> My chipset is NForce2, and needs NVIDIA NForce/NForce2 so the agp 
> can work with full power. Thank you.

This is not true; AGP works perfectly fine with the in-kernel drivers. 
You can set your video card to use the in-kernel AGP even if it is 
Nvidia, I think (use the NvAgp option in XF86Config).

If not, maybe the patch has not been updated for the latest kernels, and 
you will have to wait for someone to do so. In that case, this list is 
not the place to ask.

-Rahul
-- 
Rahul Karnik
rahul@genebrew.com
http://www.genebrew.com/

Re: Weird problem with nforce2

[Alistair J Strachan]

On Friday 29 August 2003 14:54, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> > My chipset is NForce2, and needs NVIDIA NForce/NForce2 so the agp
> > can work with full power. Thank you.
>
> This is not true; AGP works perfectly fine with the in-kernel drivers.
> You can set your video card to use the in-kernel AGP even if it is
> Nvidia, I think (use the NvAgp option in XF86Config).
>
> If not, maybe the patch has not been updated for the latest kernels, and
> you will have to wait for someone to do so. In that case, this list is
> not the place to ask.
>

The patch is fully up to date, I'm running 2.6.0-test4-mm1.

nForce2 AGPGART plus the binary NVIDIA drivers kills my box on startup. I just 
disabled AGPGART and used NVAGP provided with the drivers and I get working 
AGP 8x.

Anybody else with this?

Cheers,
Alistair.

Re: Weird problem with nforce2

[Markus Hästbacka]

Hello, I got it working now, thank you anyways. I got another problem 
straight ahead too.
My AGP works, but it's darn slow. I need it working probebly so I can 
use my linux again *sigh*.
I have a Nforce 2 chipset on my board. If I build Nforce2 support as a 
module or built in it causes a hang, and I need a hard reboot. I saw 
that if the module is loaded at startup it will cause a crash, but if I 
load it later, it wont affect the speed. So, it needs to be loaded in 
bootup, but it will cause a crash, you know something about this? When 
starting X it just crashes (And I can reproduce this without taining the 
kernel) so is Nforce2 support broken for my board?

Regards,
---
Markus Hästbacka <midian@ihme.org>