Intel 815 board and AGP Video card

[keywi]

I have an Intel 815 MB with on board video. KDE didn't like it so I added a AGP video card. Done a fresh install of slack 10.0. "demsg" gives me this message:

Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815, but could not find the secondary device. Assuming a non-integrated video card.
agpgart: Detected Intel i815 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000

How would I install the add on video card? Tried to disable video card in BIOS, but it is not an option. The video card that I am using is a generic 32 meg Nvidia chip set.

Thx,
William
www.keywi.org

[bwkaz]

Um, what's not working?

Your 815 motherboard probably disabled the onboard video card when it saw that another AGP card was plugged in. That's how I read the messages from agpgart that you posted, at least.

Is your non-onboard video card not working? If so, what's it not doing correctly? Have you installed the nVidia drivers?

[keywi]

No, I have not installed the Nvidia drivers. I may have read that wrong I guess. I was asuming that it detected the onboard video and not the non-onboard video. Of course I know that when you insert an AGP video card into a motherboard, that the onboard video will be disabled. But on some MB you have to disable it manually also, which was not an option with this MB. I thought it might have seen two video cards.

KDE works with the non-onboard video. It did not with the onboard video.

Let me do a search for Nvidia driver installation.

Thks,

William
www.keywi.org

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by keywi
agpgart: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815, but could not find the secondary device. Assuming a non-integrated video card.
agpgart: Detected Intel i815 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 [/B] ;)

That's the part of it that I think is most important, anyway. It's assuming you're not using the onboard video card.

[keywi]

Ok, but now I installed the Nvidia drivers, because I was trying to get the resolution to 1280x1024. The Nvidia module is loaded but still unable to change resolution. I have changed the xorg.conf file and tried to run "Xorgsetup", but it locks up at a certain point. I even changed the lilo.conf file to where it is 1280x1024. I just can't change KDE.

I will have to get on the Slack box to give you the error message on the "Xorgsetup" problem.

Thx,

William
www.keywi.org

[keywi]

here the error messages:

root@keywi:/home/william# grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)

root@keywi:/home/william# grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/".
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)

I hope some one can help me.

Thx,

William
www.keywi.org

[keywi]

Opps, for got the mods:

root@keywi:/home/william# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss 37480 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12568 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
appletalk 21124 12 (autoclean)
uhci 24444 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [uhci]
snd-intel8x0 18924 2
snd-ac97-codec 49936 0 [snd-intel8x0]
gameport 1420 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 55400 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 13636 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 12804 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3888 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 31588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
snd-page-alloc 5068 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
nvidia 4585676 0 (unused)
eepro100 19252 1
mii 2272 0 [eepro100]
ide-scsi 9328 0
agpgart 43940 0 (unused)

[bwkaz]

appletalk? Are you seriously on an Appletalk network? If not, there's no way you'll need that kernel module... :p

Anyway, it looks like your kernel modules are just fine (nvidia included). According to the error message in Xorg.0.log, you aren't using the "nvidia" X driver (which is NOT the same thing as the "nvidia" kernel module -- one gets loaded into the kernel, and the other gets loaded into X, which is userspace).

Did you follow the nVidia instructions (in their README) all the way through, and properly edit your /etc/X11/Xorg.conf (or whatever config file X.org uses)? It needs to have a Driver "nvidia" line in the Device section that's in use, not a Driver "vesa" or Driver "nv".

[keywi]

Your awesome dude. (bwkaz) Thanks for the help. I am able to get 1280x1024 screen resolution. Yea, I didn't read the README file all the way down to the bottom. My bad. :D

Oh, how would I get rid of Appletalk mod?

Anyway, thank you bwkaz for your help and thanks to everyone @ JL. I could not do Linux without it.

Thnx,
William
www.keywi.org

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by keywi
Oh, how would I get rid of Appletalk mod? Depends on how your distro does modules.

I would grep through all of /etc for the string "appletalk" myself, that might shed some light:

grep -r appletalk /etc

If any of the resulting files have "modules" in their name, edit them and comment out whatever line has appletalk in it. Or just post the results of the grep, if you're not quite sure what to edit.

[keywi]

Here is the results of grep:

root@keywi:/home/william# grep -r appletalk /etc
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules:#/sbin/modprobe appletalk
/etc/rc.d/rc.atalk: echo -n 'starting appletalk daemons: '
/etc/ifhp.conf:## PRINTER % - PostScript printer connected using appletalk
/etc/ifhp.conf:# Use: ifhp=model=ps_appletalk
/etc/ifhp.conf:[ ps_appletalk ]
/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default:# $c -> client's ip or appletalk address
root@keywi:/home/william#


Thx,

William
www.keywi.org

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by keywi
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules:#/sbin/modprobe appletalk OK, it's commented out. That's not what load the module.

/etc/rc.d/rc.atalk: echo -n 'starting appletalk daemons: ' This may be it, depending. If you grep through /etc for rc\\.atalk, does it come up with anything that calls this script?

grep -r rc\\.atalk /etc

[keywi]

here are the result:

root@keywi:/home/william# grep -r rc\\.atalk /etc
/etc/rc.d/rc.M:if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.atalk ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.M: /etc/rc.d/rc.atalk
root@keywi:/home/william#


Thx,

William

[bwkaz]

OK, you can either edit the rc.M file (comment out the part of it that runs rc.atalk), otherwise you can probably just make rc.atalk non-executable to turn it off.

chmod a-x /etc/rc.d/rc.atalk