OpenGL and nVidia question...

[Brian H. Chabot]

Tom Fogal wrote:

> oh, just read your glxinfo output, my bad.. oh well, other advice might help
> someone else =)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -tom

Well... as someone else suggested, I tried back-revving the drivers to 
version 4XXX.  Not even going to install.  Says it can't find the kernel 
appropriate binaries... Please don't make me recompile my kernel just 
for a lousy video driver... That would be a horrendous waste of time.

So I poked around, tried changing settings back and forth... booting 
non-fb fixed the text mode resolution issue the nvidia  drivers 
caused... but my framerate aon anything glx related was still abyssmal. 
  glxgears is still between 5 and 6 fps.

So I've been poking around otherwise with no luck.  But I did find this 
in the syslog:

> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f000edba
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel:  printing eip:
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: c02acfca
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: Oops: 0000
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: agpgart nvidia snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr snd-seq-midi-emul snd-ainstr-fm snd-seq-oss snd-seq
> -midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-als4000 snd-sb-common snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib snd
> -timer snd-seq-device snd-hwdep snd soundcore af_packet usbmouse sr_mod floppy via-rhine mii nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp850 vfat fat supermount ex
> t3 jbd ide-cd cdrom ide-scsi scsi_mod keybdev mousedev hid input ehci-hcd usb-uhci usbcore rtc reiserfs
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: CPU:    0
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: EIP:    0010:[pci_read_config_dword+26/48]    Tainted: P
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c02acfca>]    Tainted: P
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: EFLAGS: 00013046
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: EIP is at pci_read_config_dword+0x1a/0x30 [kernel]
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: eax: f000ed8a   ebx: 00003246   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000048
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: esi: 00003116   edi: dffe4000   ebp: dede175c   esp: dede1758
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: Process X (pid: 1402, stackpage=dede1000)
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: Stack: def9b400 dede177c e0b72496 00000000 00000048 dede1778 e0b815ae def9b800
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel:        00000000 dede178c e0b8c15d 00000000 00000048 dede17b8 e0b84776 def9b400
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel:        00000000 00000048 e0d4b7a0 dfe18000 db208000 dede17f4 db208000 00000000
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: Call Trace:
[snip for brevity - obviously the nvidia driver doing bad things]
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel:
> Jan 29 23:34:48 alfred kernel: Code: 8b 40 30 ff 75 10 52 51 ff 50 08 83 c4 0c 53 9d 8b 5d fc c9
> Jan 29 23:34:50 alfred xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded


So I ran ksymoops and it tells me:
> Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol _nv000173rm  , nvidia says e0d51ca0, /lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o says e0d51a80.  Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o entry

Now to be perfectly onest, I'm *completely* lost here.   Could someone 
possibly explain what all this might mean?

I'm about at my wits end here.  Any thoughts?

Brian


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