Aaargh! NVidia GLX and Linux!

[EHobaX]

Help!

I'm having problems w/ getting my 3D acceleration in Mandrake set up.
I've just installed Mandrake 8.1 w/ the XFree 4.1.0 w/ 3D acceleration (i.e. they install the NVidia kernel and GLX for you).

However, when I try to startx it gives me this error:

(WW) NVIDIA (0) Failed to initialize AGP
(EE) NVIDIA (0) Failed to allocate DMA Channel
(EE) ******* Aborting *********
(EE) NVIDIA (0) Failed to alloate DMA Push Buffer
(EE) ******* Aborting *********

Fatal Screen error:

Add Screen/Screen Init failed for driver 0

I dowloaded the latest drivers from NVidia's site and installed them.
rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_kernel.blah.blah
rpm -e NVIDIA_GLX
rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX_2.blahblah

Still no dice.
Oh yeah. My specs.
Shuttle AK31A rev.3 KT266A
VisionTek GeForce2 GTS-V 32MB DDR
Athlon 1600+ XP
I think listing the other stuff would just be semantic nonsense.

I'm thinking it could possibly be my mobo. I looked at the supported mobo's in the readme for nvidia and my chipset was not listed. 😛 I assumed that it would fall under the KT266 and do that. But I'm not a guru and that's why I'm posting.

I even set my AGP apeture size to 2X in the BIOS to see if that would help. I'm at a loss. 🙁

 

[n0cmonkey]

You edited your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file right?

 

[EHobaX]

Yeah. Still no go. I've checked out the Linux board linked at the Nvidia site and see if some of their suggestions work. Be back later. 😛

 

[EHobaX]

I love this sh*t!

Linux is so much more fun than Windoze!

I found the answer in case someone else is having this problem (or at least it worked for me).

Exit Xwindows.
rpm -qa | grep NVIDIA
rpm -e everything NVIDIA if there
rpm -ivh kernel
rpm -ivh glx
depmod -a
insmod NVdriver
XFdrake

It should work after that. I'm happy. My gfx card is happy. My linux box is happy. 🙂

 

[manly]

I'm happy you're happy. 🙂

 

[BD231]

im sick...