[plug] GeForce Video card question
Chris Griffin
chrisg at doladns.dola.wa.gov.au
Wed Feb 7 09:24:20 WST 2001
I followed the install for this last night and although the first stage,
the kernel patch, worked fine. When I got to stage two, the install of the
NVIDIA_GLX.0.9-6 part, and it complains that I am not running XFree86
version 4?. I did download the version for RedHat 6.2 which runs XFree86
version 3.whatever. Being somewhat frustrated at this stage, I set about
trying, once again, to install RedHat 7 with the same result that I have
experienced before. It gets to the end of the package installs and goes
into the "post installation configuration" phase, gets about 10% through
and never finishes. I have logged this with RedHat back in October but
still have no answer from them. Maybe I was looking to the wrong people for
help with this.
Anyone got any ideas? The following is the content of the bug (18529) I
have logged with them.
The RedHat 7 install did work out what video card I had, that was at least
something.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Regards,
Chris
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I managed to get past a previous install problem (18032) by not setting up
any dos/windoze partitions at install time, but now I get all the way
through to the end of the package installs when it starts but, It now gets
to the stage of doing the post install configuration, does about 10% of
that and then freezes at that. I can go to other virtual consoles and even
back the anaconda screen, but can not get any further with the final stage
of the install.
Regards
Chris Griffin
chris.griffin at mitswa.com.au
------- Additional comments from msf at redhat.com 2000-10-06 12:35:03 -------
What are the last few lines output on virtual console 3 when it freezes?
------- Additional comments from chris.griffin at mitswa.com.au 2000-10-14
08:43:58 -------
Sorry to be so long getting back to you.
I have tried it again a few times, with some variations.
1) Just as before
2) Without the SQL (because there were a few hits with this causing
problems,
and
3) With specifying the scsi and network cards manually
All had the same result and the same output messages on Virtual Consoles
3 and 4
I include VC 4 as the message may be important.
VC 3
* No ide floppy devices found
* making CD-ROM links for hdd
* self.network.hostname = yahweh-1
VC 4
<4> neighbour table overflow
<4> neighbour table overflow
<4> neighbour table overflow
<4> neighbour table overflow
My system is an AOpen AX59 pro motherboard with a 300MHz AMD K6-2
Hope this all helps.
Regards,
Chris
------- Additional comments from msf at redhat.com 2000-10-27 12:52:22 -------
Actually the output on VC3 is possibly important too. Could you please
include
it?
------- Additional comments from chris.griffin at mitswa.com.au 2000-10-29
09:39:54 -------
I did. It is above under the VC 3 section. Here it is again:
VC 3
* No ide floppy devices found
* making CD-ROM links for hdd
* self.network.hostname = yahweh-1
------- Additional comments from msf at redhat.com 2000-11-13 15:56:36 -------
We cannot reproduce this situation - could you give us the specific steps
required to cause this problem?
------- Additional comments from chris.griffin at mitswa.com.au 2000-11-17
21:36:52 -------
I tried the install again last night carefully selecting each option and
still get the same problem.
I checked the Virtual consoles again and this time left VC 4 up for a
while. What I found is that
it just keeps listing the message "<4> neighbour table overflow" over and
over until it scrolls
off the screen.
Whatever this message is, It looks like it might be what is causing the
problem????
Regards,
Chris.
------- Additional comments from msf at redhat.com 2000-11-29 15:47:15 -------
Do you specify a hostname during the install?
Does the machine have a valid hostname?
The messages you are seeing are probably not the problem, its more of a
warning
than a critical error.
------- Additional comments from chris.griffin at mitswa.com.au 2000-12-01
09:38:02 -------
Well, it has a name, yahweh-1. I assume that is valid as it is what I
have used
for some time. Unless the dash is now invalid and I need to use an
underscore??
I have since tried installing 6.2 again and then upgrading to 7. From
what I can
see this is working, although I always prefer to do a clean install.
What else can I do to gather information for you that will help resolve the
problem?
Chris
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At 08:46 6/02/01 +0800, you wrote:
>Chris.
>
>Go to www.evil3d.net <http://www.evil3d.net> (Thanks again Hooli ;-)), and
>read the article on installing the drivers for all Nvidia cards (including
>Geforce2mx) for your particular distribution. None of the distros fully
>config the Nvidia cards for 2D and 3D during installation, just basic 2D.
>
>Then, install Quake 3 Arena (demo or full version), run it and then pick
>your jaw up from off the ground.
>
>Dennis.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Griffin [SMTP:chrisg at doladns.dola.wa.gov.au]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:33 AM
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: [plug] GeForce Video card question
>Importance: High
>
>Well, I finally did it. I went out last night and brought myself a faster
>video card (faster than a S3 Virge).
>As expected Linux did not come up so I started to re-install my RedHat 6.2.
>Trouble is what option do I select for the video card?
>It is a GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP card. Model # CMX2A-TV that says it is powered
>by the nVIDIA GeForce2 MX 256-bit 3D graphics engine.
>It also says "Full compliant support for OpenGL 1.2 for all Windows
>operating systems and Linux". They give you all the instructions on
>installing it on Windoze, but nothing for Linux (when will they learn).
>
>Could someone please help?
>
>Regards
>Chris
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