[lug] RE: Nvidia accelerated divers

[Jeff Walker]

I know this is a pretty stupid question, but how do you set your system to
boot to the console instead of xdm (redhat 7.1, kde login manager)

thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of D. Stimits
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:41 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] RE: Nvidia accelerated divers
>
>
> One thing I've noticed is that XFree86 4.0.3 is much more stable than
> 4.0.2, and that newer NVidia drivers are also far more stable than old
> ones. I use an original GeForce I (but DDR). The 4.0.3 has a lot to do
> with SMP cleanups (I use SMP). The one thing that I found was the real
> show stopper is that I had to use the NVidia agpgart, and I had to
> specify 2x AGP, not 4x. The 4x was a problem. But considering I've had
> 640x480 24/32 bit programs exceeding 300 frames per sec, I don't think
> it is a problem. To specify 2x AGP with NVidia, within
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, find Section "Device" for the nVidia hardware,
> and add this (but be sure you are set to boot to console mode in case it
> doesn't go right...you can escape from a respawning X11 server, but it
> takes good timing):
>   Option "NvAgp" "2"
>
> Mine reads:
> Section "Device"
>    Identifier "nVidia Corporation|GeForce 256 DDR"
>    Driver "nvidia"
>    BoardName "Unknown"
>    Option "NvAgp" "2"
> EndSection
>
> And under lsmod I see these:
> agpgart                14816   3  (autoclean)
> NVdriver              659584  15  (autoclean)
>
> (though I'm not positive, I do think probably the agpgart is the NVidia
> version)
>
> With the 2x AGP, I find it is difficult to crash X11 under OpenGL
> (though I did recently come across a strange case that required
> rearranging the order of setting up an OpenGL window...glClearColor()
> had to be changed to a different location).
>
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
>
> "Riggs, Rob" wrote:
> >
> > I use the drivers from Nvidia in RPM and SRPM form as well
> (they never seem
> > to have the right kernel module for me). I have a TNT2 on an
> SMP machine.
> > I'm less than impressed with its stability. With the X server from this
> > summer, my X session would crash after a 8-12 hours of use. The
> new drivers
> > last for about 24-48 hours of use before crashing. These are
> all probably
> > SMP related problems. They've been fighting bad SMP bugs in
> their code since
> > day one.
> >
> > I'm really thinking about reverting to the XFree86 drivers.
> They are rock
> > solid. And I don't really need 3D (though it is nice to play
> with). I am,
> > however, quickly tiring of Microsoftesque stability on my Linux
> workstation.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Horning [mailto:rip6 at rip6.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:55 PM
> > Subject:
> >
> > >
> > > Ps. Has anyone tried to use the rpms from nvidia to get an
> accelerated x
> > > server on linux?  I downloaded them (one for rh7.1 single
> proc) and rpm
> > said
> > > that they weren't really rpms.  oh well.
> > >
> >
> > The RPM's work pretty well for me. I rebuild the kernel pkg from the
> > source
> > RPM though.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mark Horning
> > rip6 at rip6.net
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