please help video card AGP

[StOnEr420]

OKay, i've been in the irc chat room and try to ask people for help but they just ignore me and go on like i'm not even there.... I mean they're mostly yes or no questions and people just ignore me! I'm new to linux pretty much and there some things i'm not 100% sure about but i'm trying to learn and i've read all over the place on this, this forum, other documentation on Gentoo website and followed them... now my problem is that I can't get Enemy-Territory to run!!! when I open it... it just puts my desktop on a low resolution! I think maybe because in my xorg.conf it has no modes down for resolution?? I won't be using anything more than 1024X768 in games and 1280X1024 on my desktop... do I need to set those resolutions in my xorg.conf? I'll post everything below this..... I dunno what to do next! please some direction or plain out fed information would be greatly appreciated!

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Disabled



lsmod:

Module Size Used by
via_rhine 16772 0
mii 3968 1 via_rhine
snd_emu10k1 78216 0
snd_rawmidi 18724 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 77576 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 19460 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 6280 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 62928 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 7432 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3328 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 6788 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 43876 7 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep
via_agp 7424 1
agpgart 26920 1 via_agp
nvidia 3459164 0 <~ curious shouldn't this be using AGP?
dm_mod 50556 0
sbp2 20744 0
ohci1394 28804 0
ieee1394 90932 2 sbp2,ohci1394
ohci_hcd 18052 0
uhci_hcd 27664 0
usb_storage 26368 0
usbhid 28608 0
ehci_hcd 25348 0
usbcore 95204 7 ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd




Xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
#Load "dri"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"

### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "DigitalVibrance" # <i>
#Option "NoFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
Option "NoLogo" "False"
#Option "UBB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Stereo" # <i>
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
Option "NvAGP" "2"
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectedMonitor" # <str>
#Option "ConnectedMonitors" # <str>
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "TVOutFormat" # <str>
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
#Option "CursorShadow" # [<bool>]
#Option "CursorShadowAlpha" # <i>
#Option "CursorShadowXOffset" # <i>
#Option "CursorShadowYOffset" # <i>
#Option "UseEdidFreqs" # [<bool>]
#Option "FlatPanelProperties" # <str>
#Option "TwinView" # [<bool>]
#Option "TwinViewOrientation" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" # <str>
#Option "MetaModes" # <str>
#Option "UseInt10Module" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoRenderExtension" # [<bool>]
#Option "Overlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "FlatPanelProperties" # <str>
#Option "TwinView" # [<bool>]
#Option "TwinViewOrientation" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" # <str>
#Option "MetaModes" # <str>
#Option "UseInt10Module" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoRenderExtension" # [<bool>]
#Option "Overlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "CIOverlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceEmulatedOverlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "TransparentIndex" # <i>
#Option "OverlayDefaultVisual" # [<bool>]
#Option "NvEmulate" # <i>
#Option "NoBandWidthTest" # [<bool>]
#Option "CustomEDID-CRT-0" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-CRT-1" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-DFP-0" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-DFP-1" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-TV-0" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-TV-1" # <str>
#Option "TVOverScan" # <f>
#Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" # <str>
#Option "MultisampleCompatibility" # [<bool>]
#Option "RegistryDwords" # <str>
#Option "RegistryBinary" # <str>
#Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" # [<bool>]
#Option "AllowDFPStereo" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCUsesTextures" # [<bool>]
#Option "HorizSync" # <str>
#Option "VertRefresh" # <str>
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"

Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
ChipSet "GeForce FX 5200"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[LeTene]

Let's get the easy one out of the way first - can you change the screen resolution from the ET menus at all (Options -> System -> Resolution) ?
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[StOnEr420]

I can't get ET to start at all! It just throws me into a lower resolution and poops me back out to my desktop!

[LeTene]

Hah! I should read the posts more carefully :/

OK, can you copy & paste the results of starting ET from the command line? Mine looks like this (some stuff omitted for bevity):

[UB|K]

First of all, you should solve your AGP problem by reading the readme given with nvidia driver and adding:

[StOnEr420]

Sorry for the delay!!! on reply! this is what is says when I try to start ET
ET 2.56 linux-i386 Sep 10 2003
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/root/.etwolf/etmain
/usr/local/games/enemy-territory/etmain/pak1.pk3 (10 files)
/usr/local/games/enemy-territory/etmain/pak0.pk3 (3725 files)
/usr/local/games/enemy-territory/etmain/mp_bin.pk3 (4 files)
/usr/local/games/enemy-territory/etmain

----------------------
3739 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec language.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok

------- Input Initialization -------
Joystick is not active.
------------------------------------
Bypassing CD checks
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----
...loading libGL.so.1: Received signal 11, exiting...
/usr/local/bin/et: line 5: 15468 Segmentation fault ./et.x86 $*


I am re-compiling my kernel now with out agpgart... and seeing if ET will run! i'll let you know on that ASAP! thank you for the direction so far!


UB I had Option "NvAgp" "2" set so I am removing agpgart! and tyring "NvAgp" "1"


Okay recompiling wasn't a good idea! good thing I copied my old kernel before hand... it wouldn't load a single thing!!! kept telling me that modules were missing!! but even with agp "1" it still gives me that error!

[StOnEr420]

Okay I took out agpgart and via_agp and used Option "NvAgp" "1"

LSMOD
Module Size Used by
nvidia 4811060 0
snd_pcm_oss 48040 1
snd_mixer_oss 17536 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi 6560 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 6912 0
snd_emux_synth 34304 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 5760 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 7040 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_oss 30976 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6144 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47376 8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
usbhid 29376 0
ohci_hcd 17924 0
via_rhine 17284 0
mii 4096 1 via_rhine
ehci_hcd 25604 0
uhci_hcd 28304 0
usbcore 99684 6 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
snd_emu10k1 89992 2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 19492 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 81544 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 20228 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 6536 7 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 68048 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 7688 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3456 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 7172 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd 45924 13 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep

and this is is what i'm still getting
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Disabled


Also when I try to run X with "nvidia" driver it says
no screens found! and I can't even run xorgcfg now it says no screens0: 0 0!

Also now in my Xorg.0.log file it says this
(WW) NV(0): Option "NvAGP" is not used
(WW) NV(0): Option "NoLogo" is not used
that is with "nv" as driver!