[ubuntu-za] nvidia drivers giving big issues

Thu Apr 23 23:00:44 BST 2009

Well, I've learnt a lot, but still haven't resolved it... Google will help
me, and I'll come back if I find a solution...

I've learnt to read the logs!  (bold looks pretty imposing at 640x480)

(II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
    "Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions
is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
*(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): The EDID read for display device CRT-0 is invalid: the
(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0):     checksum for EDID version 1 is invalid.
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Raw EDID bytes:
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):   00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00  0e 98 00 37 00 00 00 00
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):   00 0a 01 01 1d 24 1b 6e  e8 8a 82 a0 56 47 96 24
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):   0f 48 4f bf ff 80 31 7c  45 7c 61 68 71 68 81 99
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):   a9 4f 01 01 01 01 10 0e  80 c0 20 e0 1d 10 20 30
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):   13 00 5e 04 11 00 00 18  f9 15 20 f8 30 58 1f 20
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):   20 40 13 00 5e 04 11 00  00 1e ea 24 00 60 41 00
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):   28 30 30 60 13 00 5e 04  11 00 00 1e 00 00 00 fd
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):   00 32 a0 1e 5f ff 00 0a  20 20 20 20 20 20 00 04
(--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): *
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5500 (NV34) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 262144 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.34.20.69.00
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5500 at PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0):     CRT-0
(--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 350.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-0
(==) NVIDIA(0):
(==) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode
"nvidia-auto-select"
(==) NVIDIA(0):     will be used as the requested mode.
(==) NVIDIA(0):
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480
*(WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-0's EDID; cannot compute
DPI
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     from CRT-0's EDID*.
(==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default
(==) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Reenen Laurie <rlaurie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been restarting my PC for more than the past 24 hours. (50 times?
> more?)  Anyway, here is my tale, and I hope that someone could help me!
>
> I always had an on-board intel graphics card, which well... was ok, but
> kinda struggled with games.  So I got a 2nd hand 3d card off gumtree.co.zawhich happens to be nvidia fx 5500 AGP. My pc is still old enough, so it had
> AGP slot.
>
> Everything worked great!  I slotted it in, and when the PC rebooted, I got
> a lovely 2048x1536 resolution (on my 21" monitor - CTX - don't really know
> the brand), which high refresh rate.  Awesome!
>
> My 3d games first pass worked (Half Life 1 - Counter strike, Open Arena,
> and some others).  However... Starcraft ran hugely slow. 2-3 fps. I couldn't
> follow my mouse cursor, it was so slow. Played around with settings (wine
> regedit current user directdraw = "opengl" or "gdi" etc.), which needed
> reboots - Starcraft didn't play well...
>
> So, I checked for updates. Yes! Nvidia updates, as well as a kernel update,
> as well as wine! Cool!  Ran updates, and restarted (for kernel).
>
> When I had to log on, I was greeted with a 640x480 login screen where the
> e's of my name didn't have a little hole... Since then, well I haven't been
> able to use the PC, I have just been trying to fix it.
>
> I've done several stuff... (in no particular order):
> * sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> * installed new drivers, old drivers, vesa drivers (I got 800x600 with
> them)
> * uninstalled all nvidia drivers
> * added resolutions to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (and other xorg.conf edits and
> attempts)
> * added some modules not to be loaded in
> /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
> * Xorg -configure (from a non graphical shell)
> * rebooted in recovery mode, asked to try to fix X
> * played around with envyng
>
> Some of the symptoms:
> * My monitor is crt-0, where it used to have some name (can't recall what)
>
> * dmesg | grep nvidia outputs:
> [   16.402126] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> [   17.057709] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ
> 21
>
> * glxinfo | grep render outputs:
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5500/PCI/SSE2
>
> * xrandr outputs:
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
> default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    640x480        50.0     52.0
>    320x240        51.0
>    1024x768       52.0*
> (note: the 1024x768 is a "panning" setting used to at least be able to use
> the PC, the monitor is still at 640x480)
>
> * lshw -C video outputs:
> WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
>   *-display
>        description: VGA compatible controller
>        product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]
>        vendor: nVidia Corporation
>        physical id: 0
>        bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
>        version: a1
>        width: 32 bits
>        clock: 66MHz
>        capabilities: bus_master cap_list
>        configuration: driver=nvidia latency=248 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
> module=nvidia
>
> I'm not a linux expert, and I've tredded in waters and places many an
> expert hasn't gone yet. No avail. Why can't they make 3d capable open source
> drivers?!
>
> So now, even if I try to get back onto vesa drivers I'm stuffed.  I could
> still go to my intel on-board, but even that doesn't reach the same
> resolutions it used to in the past.  How did nvidia screw up my PC so badly?
>
> Sorry, I am truely frustrated... could someone give me a similar experience
> with a better result?
> Regards,
> -Reenen
>
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