nVidia Computer

[Owen Townend]

On 15/04/2008, Owen Townend <owen.townend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hey,
>   I have always had a good run with nvidia hardware and had never owned
> anything ati until last weekend when I bought the same motherboard as you.
>   The Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H is a great board so far, but definately
> has had its quirks for me. To install Gutsy you need the alternate disk,
> but
> none of the supplied kernels were apparently installable.
>   This meant I had to use a livecd (I used a hardy desktop beta) to chroot
>
> into a kernel-less system, install a newer kernel and then update
> initramfs
> and grub.
>   The alternative was to install Hardy but as this is to be a mythtv
> box and the Mythbuntu 8.04 beta did not prove to be stable enough I
> eventually went for the former. I haven't yet been able to get radeon,
> radeonhd or gfglx running under 2.6.22-14 but I am still hopeful[1].
> BTW gfglx worked perfectly under Hardy[2]. The onboard video is an HD3200
>
> Good luck,
> cheers,
> Owen
>
> [1] My RocketRaid rr1740 drivers won't compile past 2.6.22 as some
> functions
> have been deprecated, they haven't updated the driver and I haven't yet
> looked to see if I can patch it myself.
>
> [2] add Option "TexturedVideo" "on" to the Device section in xorg.conf
>   Without it xvinfo shows no devices.
>
>
Hey,
  Simply for completeness in case anyone is later searching this thread I am
posting a follow up.
  The onboard video in the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H is an ATI HD3200
which is based on the HD2400. Being brand new, I had to use the latest
driver.
  The trouble I had with the fglrx video driver has been resolved as
partially a
PEBKAC issue. I had installed the restricted modules version and then
changed
my mind and gone for ATI's .run file from their site. This caused a few
hassles.
After looking through Xorg.0.log and googling the errors I then had to
change a few things to get it working. One thread in particular helped
immensely[1].
  I ended up using ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run to create ubuntu
modules (--buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy). These helpfully had their 'replaces',
'conflicts with', etc fields set up and so amdcccle replaced fglrx-control
and
xorg-driver-fglrx was updated[2].

  It now works beautifully.

cheers,
Owen.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6017
[quote] Ren Höek, 10-26-2007, 08:22 AM
| Please try this:
| Code:
|   $ modprobe -vf fglrx
| If the output is something like this:
| Code:
|   install /sbin/lrm-video fglrx
| ...you will have to modify the file "/etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video"
| Comment out the line with fglrx:
| Code:
|   #install fglrx /sbin/lrm-video fglrx $CMDLINE_OPTS
[/quote]

[2] Version 8.471-0ubuntu1 replaced 7.1.0-8.37.6+2.6.22.4-14.10 for both
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