Binary nVidia-driver with GeForce2 Integrated GPU

[Rafal Grodzinski]

Frank Steinborn wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have a box with a GeForce2 MX/MX400 onboard on an nForce-chipset and
> want to use the binary nVidia-driver with it. I have to use the legacy
> driver (96.43.13). It installs without problems, and the GPU gets
> detected properly: 
> 
> nvidia0: <GeForce2 Integrated GPU> on vgapci0
> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
> nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
> 
> However, if I start X, strange things happen. The video is shown, but
> there are many artifacts and all looks kind of strange - it is
> unusable. I can see the following from the nVidia-driver in dmesg
> after X started:
> 
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01014a00 0000004a 00000104 00000003
> 00000802
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01014a00 0000004a 00000104 00000003
> 00000802
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01014a00 0000004a 00000104 00000003
> 00000802
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01014a00 0000004a 00000104 00000003
> 00000802
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01016100 0000008a 00000104 00000003
> 00000002
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01014200 00000062 00000300 fffffff7
> 00000002
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01014200 00000062 00000300 fffffff1
> 00000002
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01016100 0000008a 00000104 97004200
> 00000002
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01016100 0000008a 00000104 97004200
> 00000002
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01016100 0000008a 00000104 97004200
> 00000002
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01014a00 0000004a 00000104 00000003
> 00000802
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01011900 00000019 00000104 00000003
> 00000802
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01011900 00000019 00000104 00000000
> 00000800
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01019700 00001196 00000c28 02410273
> 00000800
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01014a00 0000004a 00000104 00000003
> 00000802
> NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 13, 0000 01016100 0000008a 00000104 97004200
> 00000002
> 
> The README of the driver says that Xid-errors occor when the card gets
> wrong instructions from the driver and/or vice-versa, but that doesn't
> help me much getting to the root of the problem.
> 
> What I've done so far to track this down:
> 
> - Tried the driver from ports (atm in version 96.43.11) and the one
>   from the website (96.43.13).
> - installed compat5x (The nVidia page claims this is necessary).
> - I tried with agp-support from the nVidia-driver and with agp-support
>   from the FreeBSD kernel.
> 
> All that did not changed the observed beharviour. I would be more than
> happy if someone could provide me with a hint...
> 
> The Xorg.0.log doesn't provide meaningful informations, except the
> Xid-errors shown above. xorg.conf attached.
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
> 
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Hello Frank,

I'd advise you to try out different versions of nvidia driver from 
ports, especially x11/nvidia-driver-71 as it's quite an old card.

I have GeForce 6100 and if I use anything different than 
x11/nvidia-driver-173 I get some random issues.

If you still get issues with x11/nvidia-driver-71 I think that you 
should check out some older drivers from nvidia web site.

About your xorg.conf file I don't think that you need to have both 
Option       "DPMS"
and
HorizSync    30-60,
VertRefresh  50-76
set at the same time. As I understand it DPMS means that graphics card 
reads these information directly from screen so you don't have to set it 
yourself. I've got only
Option       "DPMS"
set and it works fine.


Rafal