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| Author: | hoffswell [ Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | xmame+nvidia locks up. |
Hi - I've googled till my mouse-muscle hurts! No luck on this one - I have gotten xmame to load within mythfrontend now, but the screen comes up a blue garbled jumbled up mess, and my machine locks up, requiring a hard reset. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with my nvidia drivers. I have loaded the latest NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run from Nvidia, but no luck. Anyone have ideas or pointers on this? Thanks! |
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| Author: | cesman [ Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:15 pm ] |
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If you are certain it has to do with the nVidia drivers why not remove them(nVidia docs should say how...)? The latest nVidia drivers have been reported to be problematic. |
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| Author: | hoffswell [ Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:12 pm ] |
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I got it. http://www.podtronics.com/knoppmyth/FAQ.htm Showed me how to get the nvidia driver installed. Then I did an nvidia-installer --update Now xmame works. I am seeing problems with my virtual terminals (alt-ctl-f1) at the moment, however. just junk on the screen. So... maybe I'm not out of the woods yet. |
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| Author: | hoffswell [ Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:35 pm ] |
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update. Aparently the latest drivers do fix mame, but break the virtual terminals. You can uninstall with NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --uninstall And running install-nvidia again, then reboot, will restore your virtual terminals. Then mame's broken again. Looks like driver issues for me. My card, by the way is a GeForce fx5200 I write this to log my own activity, and in hopes that others may glean info from it, as I have from the other posts on the forum. Thanks, Cesman |
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| Author: | cesman [ Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:41 pm ] |
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You're welcome. If you are connected TV you probably need to specify ConnectedMonitor for virtual ttys to work. |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Sun Jan 18, 2004 2:43 am ] |
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and you may want to search the net and try the 4620 beta drivers they support the newer cards but have less problems than the latest ones. |
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| Author: | SnapperDragon [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 9:29 pm ] |
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I get the same problem out of the KnoppMyth box and my GF4 ti 4400 card. I'll post if I figure anything out. |
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| Author: | notivo [ Sun Feb 29, 2004 11:58 pm ] |
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I'm getting the blocky garbled screen on xmame. However I can ssh into the box, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to release the monitor resource, even if you kill the xmame processes. |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:05 am ] |
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well in my experience the problem with nvidia drivers and the console has always been framebuffer. If framebuffer is on you usually experience problems switching to virtual consoles. The bigger problem is getting framebuffer to turn off. I can't remember what all I had to do now, but I know I fought that one for days the last time I experienced that problem. |
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