On 7/24/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 16:12, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 7/24/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Having an oldish GeForce 4 type video card, I tried to get 3D > > acceleration, so (after some inquiry on the nVidia website) I did > > # yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx > > Yum took the package from Livna, took the appropriate xorg-x11-driver > > file, installed them both successfully. I verified the xorg.conf file > > that was modified in the process, and it looks perfectly sane to me. But, > > after startx all I get is a blank dark screen, and all I can do is to > > press the reset button. > > X is hanging. See: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498 > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678 Thanks for the pointers! :-) So, I managed to make the nvidia-bug-report.log (it is attached). It was not obvious since once I do startx I have no more control over the machine. In case anyone else needs to know how, this little script did the trick: #!/bin/bash startx -- -logverbose 6 & sleep 10 nvidia-bug-report.sh exit After the reboot I found the log file there. I'll also try to post it on the nVidia forums (where exactly?) and see what happens. So what now? Can you tell why is X hanging based on the log?
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 1, 0x8000, 0x000003d4, 0x00000474) (II) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA X driver has encountered an error; attempting to (II) NVIDIA(0): recover... Have you verified that you're using the latest motherboard BIOS? Does setting NvAGP to 0 in xorg.conf help?
