Debian BTS wrote:
Having exhausted all options, I went and tried to find a solution for
getting the media reader to work (it still doesn't :) ) and in the
process, found a website that describes howto get the display to go up
to 1600x1200. I haven't tried such a feat yet and am not too anxious to
do so, but the solution to that problem was setting the NV_reg_Mobile
option. Loading the nvidia module like this:
modprobe nvidia NVreg_Mobile=1
Will bring the X server right up. Initially, I set it to NVreg_Mobile=0
and it returned to the console. You can probably imagine the excitement
that set in at that point: the laptop had NOT hardlocked. Apparantly,
NVreg_Mobile=1 needs to be set with mobile nvidia GPUs. Perhaps a minor
change to Debian documentation could reflect this.
Please repeat and confirm that this fixes the problem.
This also seems to solve the problem for me. If I boot (either without
X, or using "nv"), then modprobe nvidia with these options, I can then
start X (with "nvidia").
One outstanding problem: how can I force the module to the loaded with
this option at boot time? I thought I just needed to put
nvidia NVreg_Mobile=1
in /etc/modules, but this doesn't seem to work.
Further comment: I'm not sure if I am supposed to be using nvidia-legacy
packages instead, but I can't solve all dependencies to install these on
my system (just upgraded to latest 2.6.16 and X.org 7.0).
Thanks,
Tim Gershon
Some system details (relevant parts only, hopefully):
lspci -vv:
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17
[GeForce4 460 Go] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 2: Memory at d7f80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at d7f00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce4 460 Go"
Driver "nvidia"
# Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "DigitalVibrance" "2"
EndSection
Xorg.0.log:
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 460 Go] rev 163, Mem
@ 0xfd000000/24, 0xd8000000/27, 0xd7f80000/19
..
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8762
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX
..
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8762
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
..
(II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 13:09:21 PDT 2006
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
..
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) 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): Option "NoLogo" "true"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading maximum pixel clock value for display device
(EE) NVIDIA(0): TV-0.
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce4 460 Go at PCI:1:0:0
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.17.00.59.d3
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 4X
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce4 460 Go at PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Toshiba Internal Panel (DFP-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0): 100.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): TV encoder: NVIDIA
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1024x768"; removing.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "640x480"; removing.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1600x1200"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x1024"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1152x864"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "800x600"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1600 x 1200
(++) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (96, 96); computed from -dpi X commandline option
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
..
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1600x1200"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "BackingStore"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Backing store enabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "UseFBDev" is not used
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "DigitalVibrance" is not used
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