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Lord Spector
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 Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:32 pm Post subject: so many problems.... |
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I recently bought a new graphic card nvidia geforce fx 5600 turbo...
And everything basically went downhill from there... Besides getting poor performance from my card, my X freezes... It freezes quite often.. I would say when I'm running at 100% CPU but it's not true... I can play some games and it won't freeze... but I can load a page in mozilla and it will... and it freezes with Unreal Tournament too( almost every time)...When it does, I am still able to move the mouse and the sound still works but I have to do a hard reset to unfreeze the thing...
I tried a new kernel(I'm using 2.4.23), new nvidia drivers (got 1.0.4496) and nothing helps...
I'm using openbox.. al this is running on a 1066 athlon thunderbird....
Anyone got any Ideas ? |
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mastergoon
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| perhaps your motherboard isnt agp3.0 like that card is? |
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Lord Spector
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my motherboard has agp 4x capabilities... abit kt7a
so nope.. it isn't that... I think |
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shiftless
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what do you get from...
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status |
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jcc
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| try using nvidia's agp, or agpgart (well, try the one you're not using right now ;), also look if AGP Fast Writes are on (this can be troublesom). and remember, nvidia just works ;) |
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Lord Spector
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using nvidia'AGP.. forcing agp 4x and using fast write.. I also enabled it in BIOS...
I'm getting desperate here.. please someone help  |
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neonknight
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| Lord Spector wrote: | my motherboard has agp 4x capabilities... abit kt7a
so nope.. it isn't that... I think |
I have a kt7a-raid and I have quite similar problems. I suppose that the mainboard is just crap.
After I bought it (june 2001), I had to upgrade the bios for half a year to get Win2k to run.
I have a radeon9000pro graphics card. I don't play a lot under linux (just et), most time I use win98 which runs quite stable (more stable than you would expect it to, especially compared to linux  ).
Sometimes my X freezes. I can move the mouse, but I cannot click anything, the keyboard is ignored. But I found out, it only happens when I use mozilla (or firefox) and enter long texts in a textarea (this one is close to be dangerous).
well, after almost three years of trouble I finally blame the mainboard. As soon as my budget allows it, I will get rid of it and buy something better. |
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