Nforce2 Onboard Video

dweebs0r · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 177

I am having a problem with the onboard video of my Nforce 2 motherboard. When playing an opengl game specifically Quake 3 and Tuxracer the bottom righthand corner of my screen has a perfect little square of artifact. The framerate seems fine but the square is present in both games.
It is not present with X or with KDE's screensaver (Euphoria GL). I have tried increasing and decreasing both the video memory and agp aperture (via bios). If anyone else has seen this let me know. Appreciate the help!

--Dweebs

altorus · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:19 pm Post subject:

What resolution you running at? NVIDIA cards have problems doing 800 by 600. This was happening on my system with nwn and ut2k3.

How the hell did you get the thing stable? I had issues with my onboard igp - i had to go with an external video card to get my system stable. Its an Albatron KM18GPro

dweebs0r · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 177

Hey, go figure, I didn't try changing the res but that fixed it.

No problem at 640x480 or 1024x768 but at 800x600 the little box returns. Weird.
Is this a known and documented issue? I haven't heard of it before.

As far as the stability, this thing is very stable so far. It's an Asus Nforce2 IGP.

Thanks for the help.

--Dweebs

altorus · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:41 am Post subject:

Hehe, 800x600 strikes again

My shoulder surfing buddy says that 800x600 is just a strange nvidia resolution - it wsa more of a banshee one.

You got some more system specs? I'm just wondering how the hell you got the igp stable. I'd love mine stable, its really irritating having to use an external vid card.

Unless nvidia have rolled out some new drivers, or maybe you just lucked out. Tho i have heard that a BIOS flash will fix the problem. \

That is the only major gripe with my mobo, but yeah

dweebs0r · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 177

Ok here we go with system specs:

Asus Nforce2 IGP
Athlon XP 1700
256 mb DDR
2 x 40 gig hard drives
DVD/CDRW combo drive

Nvidia drivers - nvidia-glx-1.0.4496 & nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3.

Vanilla sources - linux.2.4.22.

Results from lsmod:
Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
ppp_deflate 3448 0 (autoclean)
zlib_inflate 18564 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
zlib_deflate 18104 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
bsd_comp 4312 0 (autoclean)
ppp_async 7648 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 16316 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc 5440 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
hsfbasic2 95948 2 (autoclean)
hsfserial 23156 2 (autoclean)
hsfengine 868908 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial]
hsfosspec 21884 1 (autoclean) [hsfbasic2 hsfserial hsfengine]
nvidia 1630592 11 (autoclean)
floppy 51260 0 (autoclean)
tuner 10720 1 (autoclean)
tvaudio 14204 0 (autoclean) (unused)
bttv 95776 0 (unused)
videodev 6272 2 [bttv]
i2c-algo-bit 7560 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 13540 0 [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit]
8139too 15720 0 (unused)
mii 2528 0 [8139too]
snd-pcm-oss 38436 0
snd-mixer-oss 13680 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0 19432 1 (autoclean)
snd-pcm 62912 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
gameport 1676 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0]
snd-ac97-codec 43096 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0]
snd-page-alloc 6580 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 3440 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 14272 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-oss 29216 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3584 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 37584 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-timer 14948 0 [snd-pcm snd-seq]
snd-seq-device 4304 0 [snd-rawmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd 34820 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3876 6 [bttv snd]
nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 53824 1 (autoclean)
joydev 6016 0 (unused)
nvnet 26336 0 (unused)
usb-storage 69244 0 (unused)
hid 21728 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 18880 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 17440 0 (unused)
usbcore 62752 1 [usb-storage hid usb-ohci ehci-hcd]

I guess thats it.

--Dweebs