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[hexxon]

edit: Running Xandros 3.01 OCE (build 2005-02-02 09:0
according to my help-about xandros.
Sp1 and Sp2. Kernel 2.6.11
Installed the nvidia drivers.(xandros-nvidia-modules-2.6.11-x1)
Okay, nearly going crazy trying to get our nvidia geforce mx440 working properly. Was booting up in vesa mode till recently, when we decided we wanted to try Second Life and Googleearth, followed all instructions in the forums, now Nvidia splash screen shows up before log in screen,
(from the nvidia configuration utility it says
'NVIDIA Driver Version : 1.0-7174'
however when I try to run glxgears or glxinfo nothing happens, opengl screensavers don't work either.

When I go into Control Centre it says it is still using vesa driver!
Control Centre Hardware detection says:Video Adapter
VideoRam = 65344k
Xdriver = nv
busid = 0000:01:00.0
class = 0x030000
classname = VGA Compatible Controller
desc = NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]
driver = vesa
driverextensions = nvidia
kerneldrivers = nvidia rivafb
manu = nVidia Corporation
pci = 0x10de, 0x0171, 0x0000, 0x0000
primary = true
revision = a3
usingdriver = vesa
xdriver = nvidia

Any help would be appreciated, want to stick with Xandros.
Thanks in advance

edited the xorg.conf file
added nvidia to the end of /etc/ module file
see post below

[redrum]

Since you are no longer running a base (unmodified) system, you will first have to tell us what you have done before we can help you.
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[hexxon]

Hi again , I posted more info in the first post.
Hopefully someone can help. As I said we are getting the nvidia splash screen but Control Centre still says we are using vesa driver.

Here is our xorg.conf file

################################################################################
## Automatically generated file by buildxconf
## part of the Xandros hardware detection system
##
## See Also:
## 'man devices-overview' for information about the detection system
## 'man setxconf' a utility for interacting with the detection system
## to modify the X configuration
## 'man xorg.conf' for the format of this file
##
## Warning:
## If this file is edited manually, then buildxconf will no longer
## modify this file. It must be removed to be regenerated.
################################################################################


Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/altdrivers"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

# Local Fontserver: Disabled by default.
#FontPath "unix/:7100"

# Unscaled Bitmap Fonts:
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
# Scalable TrueType and CID Fonts (via DeFoMa):
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"

# Scalable TrueType Fonts (via std X path):
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"

# Scalable Speedo and Type1 Fonts:
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"

# Scaled Bitmap fonts (ugly) :
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"

# Misc. Fonts:
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "ddc"
Load "int10"
Load "xandetect"
# Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
# Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "bitmap"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "mouse.usb"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "YES"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

# pci info: 0x10de, 0x0171, 0x0000, 0x0000
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "VideoRam" "67108864k"
Option "xdriver" "nvidia"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Super VGA 1280x1024"
ModelName "1280x1024"
HorizSync 31.5-50
EndSection

# res 1024 768
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
AllowMouseOpenFail
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Screen1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1"
InputDevice "mouse.usb"
EndSection

Anything wrong in there? Am stuck.

[redrum]

Did you use the nvidia installer? The latest ones don't work very well in my experience with Xandros 3.0.

You can manually set your driver by typing etcdevset -S -c video.1 -t xdriver -v nvidia but I doubt that'll change anything.. I guess its worth a shot, though.
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[hexxon]

I used the nvidia installer, also did the etcdevset -S -c video.1 -t xdriver -v nvidia but so far nothing. Which driver works best with Xandros 3?[/i]

[redrum]

The built-in driver is the only one that works properly.. The installer breaks stuff.. One can possibly recreate the necessary links, but I no longer can offer that info since I use 4.0... Your best bet is to uninstall the nvidia driver and not use the nvidia installer..

Another thing to note, is that the latest, 97xx drivers no longer support the Geforce4 series of cards, so it will require you to uninstall the driver if you used the 97xx driver.

Normally, you would have to reinstall Xandros at this point ( the stock Nvidia driver doesn't contain the gl libs to fix what the installer broke) but you lucked out. Matty made an updated nvidia driver for 3.0 that will hopefully fix what is broke.
The link to the deb is here..

http://support.xandros.com/downloads/desktop_3.0/experimental/xandros-nvidia-modules-2.6.11-x1_1.0.8174.x.1-16_i386.deb

You must uninstall the nvidia driver first to use this.. To do that use the command sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-xxxx-pkg1.run --uninstall (where xxxx is the version of your driver).

You will then want to open your /etc/devices/ext/nvidia.pcimap, and make sure the following line is present:

nvidia 0x000010de 0x00000171 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0

If it is not, you'll want to add it (you can just add it to the bottom, just make sure it isn't entered twice), then follow the steps explained before to allow buildxconf to regenerate your xorg.conf file.

Hope this helps..
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[hexxon]

Thanks redrum! Will try that today, and let you know what happened.

[hexxon]

phew! ok did all that and then couldn't boot up in regular mode (stuck on black screen) Got as far as a looping log in in regular user safe mode. Could boot up in safe mode under root. Deleted the xorg.conf replaced it with my old one , rebooted and voila! Could boot up in regular mode, got the nvidia splash screen, logged in and checked the control panel, says vesa still. Also no open gl or glxinfo or gears. Back to where I was, but at least I can boot up again.

[redrum]

Interesting.. I'm not sure how this is possible, especially since so many people used his driver with great success in the past, but it appears Matty made some mistakes with certain links in his nvidia driver... They point to the old libraries (which no longer exist) instead of the new ones... Rather than have you fix those mistakes yourself, I built a new package containing the necessary changes.

It is available here.. http://www.vogelefamily.info/xandros/nvidia/3.0/xandros-nvidia-modules-2.6.11-x1_1.0.8174.x.1-16_i386.deb

You will want to go into Xandros Networks, do a search for 'nvidia' remove the nvidia driver and then install my rebuilt version that you just downloaded.. Then reboot your system and see what happens.. Hopefully then you will get googleearth to work
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[hexxon]

Thanks redrum, I uninstalled the last ones and installed the new ones from you. Am at the same point still. Nvidia splash screen loads, but then after I log in and check control pnel it still says Vesa and no opengl at all.
take at look at my xorg.conf posted above, I noticed that under input device videocard it says screen 0. Is that maybe the problem,?, should it say screen 1? I am stumped.

[redrum]

Can you plug your monitor into the other monitor port and see what happens? If nothing happens, please leave it plugged into that port and log into expert mode, rename your xorg.conf file and issue the buildxconf command as described previously... Then see what happens..
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[hexxon]

Hi redrum, I'm not sure what you mean, by plugging the monitor into another port. the nvidia card only has one port, unless you mean changing screen 0 to screen 1 in my xorg.conf file.

[redrum]

Nope, I was assuming the card has two ports, because the mx440 chipset has dual monitor capability. and most cards have both ports.. Your card does not, so I'm at a loss there.. Have you tried a 3d application like googleearth to test whether it works with the new driver? If you haven't, I'd give it a shot, just in case it does work..

If it doesn't and you haven't rebuilt your xorg.conf since replacing the driver I would give that, and after that, I'm kinda out of ideas there, since the xorg.conf file you posted the second time looks good to me aside from the fact that I'd like to see the screen and monitor section set to 0 instead of 1 I have no idea how to do that though, so you may need to contact the folks at support (at) xandros (dot) com if recreating the xorg.conf file does not work..

Redrum.
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[hexxon]

Hey redrum tried everything. nvidia screen shows up, but driver is still vesa and glx is still screwed. Then I went looking in xandros networks , did a search of glx and a bunch of nvidia kernels came up and I don't have any of them installed , could that be the problem? And if so which one would I install? Thanks Hexxon.

[redrum]

You only need one nvidia package to have a successful install. The extra ones are packages compiled for different kernels.. One package should be installed though..

I'd do a search for Nvidia and make sure that one of the xandros-nvidia-modules packages is installed. If you are getting an nvidia splashscreen then at least one of them is.

You want to make sure your package is for the 2.6.11-x1 kernel (unless for some reason you have the 2.6.9-x1 kernel, which you would be able to determine by typing uname -a). If you installed matty's package, then that should be all you need.

Here is one last question, and then for the moment I'm out of ideas... Does your computer have a built-in video card as well as the Nvidia one?

More specifically, If you type lspci -x and post the output I can see all of the hardware you have.
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