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Author:  Flavor [ Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Knoppmyth detects my on-board video instead of my PCI card
I have a Celeron 2.6GHz Trigem Imperial GL motherboard with onboard i845 video. I have disabled the onboard video in the BIOS, because I am using a FX5200 PCI card instead.

When KnoppMyth installed, it set up X to use the "i810" driver. To fix this, all I did was change it to "nvidia". I'm wondering, though, if I am now missing any other optimizations that KnoppMyth would have done based on my hardware.

I'm trying to do HDTV with a FusionHDTV5 card, and the 1080i playback is a bit choppy.
Author:  Human [ Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knoppmyth detects my on-board video instead of my PCI ca
Interesting. Were the nVidia proprietary drivers installed automatically? If not, maybe the script that detects nVidia cards didn't work for you. It mostly just looks at the output of lspci. Run this and let me know what it says:
Code:
lspci -m | grep VGA | grep -i nvidia
Author:  Flavor [ Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knoppmyth detects my on-board video instead of my PCI ca
Human wrote:
Run this and let me know what it says:
Code:
lspci -m | grep VGA | grep -i nvidia

I'll try that tonight when I get home and post the results.

Do you have any suggestions where I can look next to get some more performance out of this. Upgrading hardware is not much of an option for me at this point. I'd post my entire setup and questions here, but I don't think that it's an "Installation" issue after the current item I posted has been resolved. Where should I post performance enhancement questions?
Author:  Human [ Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knoppmyth detects my on-board video instead of my PCI ca
Flavor wrote:
Where should I post performance enhancement questions?

I think it'd go in the MythTV topic under Linux, since you'd be working with MythTV settings.
Author:  Flavor [ Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:52 pm ]
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the lspci returned...

02:0b.0 VGA compatible controller nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] a1 00 eVga.com. Corp. b309

if I don't grep for nvidia in there, it also returns...
02:02.0 VGA compatible controler Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device 03 00 Trigem Computer Inc. 3189
Author:  Human [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:55 pm ]
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Ok, so KM probably detected your card and installed the nVidia drivers for you. Can you confirm? If the drivers were installed but your X config file wasn't set up to use the nvidia driver, it's possible that nVidia's scripting freaked out when it saw the other video card.
Author:  Flavor [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:08 pm ]
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Human wrote:
Ok, so KM probably detected your card and installed the nVidia drivers for you. Can you confirm? If the drivers were installed but your X config file wasn't set up to use the nvidia driver, it's possible that nVidia's scripting freaked out when it saw the other video card.


How can I tell if the nVidia script freaked out or not?

I think the drivers were there. All I did was change the i810 to nvidia in the xconfig. I didn't download/install anything else.
Author:  Human [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:17 pm ]
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Flavor wrote:
How can I tell if the nVidia script freaked out or not?

I can help you determine that. First, back up your XF86Config-4 file. Second, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use the i810 driver instead. Then run this as root to explicitly re-install the nVidia drivers:
Code:
install-nvidia-debian.sh 1.0-8774 -force

If you still end up with the i810 driver in your XF86Config-4 file, then it's likely that part of nVidia's installer is confused. If that doesn't happen, I'll need to think about it :)
Author:  Flavor [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:24 pm ]
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Human wrote:
Code:
install-nvidia-debian.sh 1.0-8774 -force



It looks like it's calling wget and then gets a "404 Object Not Found" while trying to download the driver.
Author:  Human [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:34 pm ]
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Flavor wrote:
It looks like it's calling wget and then gets a "404 Object Not Found" while trying to download the driver.

It's a bit confusing, but long story short the relevant file is already on your disk (assuming you're using R5D1) so it's ok if the re-download fails. What does it do after that?
Author:  Flavor [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:39 pm ]
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Human wrote:
Flavor wrote:
It looks like it's calling wget and then gets a "404 Object Not Found" while trying to download the driver.

It's a bit confusing, but long story short the relevant file is already on your disk (assuming you're using R5D1) so it's ok if the re-download fails. What does it do after that?


It says something like, "the .run file could not be extracted and has been deleted. Please rerun the script." Then it exits.
Author:  Human [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:48 pm ]
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Flavor wrote:
It says something like, "the .run file could not be extracted and has been deleted. Please rerun the script." Then it exits.

Ok, some questions for you:
1) Is your box on the network? Can you ping download.nvidia.com?
2) Did you run the command I gave you as root?
3) What do you have in /usr/src on your box? Is there an NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8774-pkg1.run file?
Author:  Flavor [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:58 pm ]
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Human wrote:
Flavor wrote:
It says something like, "the .run file could not be extracted and has been deleted. Please rerun the script." Then it exits.

Ok, some questions for you:
1) Is your box on the network? Can you ping download.nvidia.com?
Yes/Yes
Human wrote:
2) Did you run the command I gave you as root?
Yes
Human wrote:
3) What do you have in /usr/src on your box? Is there an NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8774-pkg1.run file?

Yes, and there's also a 7184 there.
Author:  Human [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:03 pm ]
Post subject: 
Interesting. Please post the exact text you get when running the command I gave so I can look into it in detail.
Author:  Flavor [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:29 pm ]
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Code:
install-nvidia-debian.sh 1.0.8774 -force
--16:29:03--  http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0.8774/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0.8774-pkg1.run
           => `NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0.8774-pkg1.run'
Resolving download.nvidia.com... 216.228.121.15, 216.228.115.13, 216.228.115.17
Connecting to download.nvidia.com|216.228.121.15|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
16:29:03 ERROR 404: Not Found.

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0.8774-pkg1.run could not be extracted
and has been deleted. Please restart this script.
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