installed nvidia - works - but now ethernet won't work!?

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:41 am Post subject:

I had figured it out and ran:

e2fsck -y /dev/hda3

that fixed it, I still get the usual errors, but at least I can boot.

I am back at being able to see my ethernet - it works now, but when I type kdm - my former nvidia splash screen turns into those weird characters.

I'm going to take a look at my XF86Config file to verify that things are ok.

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:03 am Post subject:

well, it looks alright.

so here is where I am at:

ethernet works fine, but I can't get into X with the nvidia drivers.

any ideas?

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:11 am Post subject:

Hmmm.
Does anything in /var/log/XFree86.0.log look suspicious ?

Just curious, does /proc/interrupts show eth0 and nvidia on IRQ 11 now ?

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:16 am Post subject:

I did cat /proc/interrupts and it now shows eth0 but I don't see nvidia.

I then did modprobe nvidia and it still didn't show up.

I didn't notice anything odd about /var/log/XF86Config.log but then again I am not accustomed to deciphering it.

It seems to me that the ethernet is working fine now but that the nvidia module is not properly loading.

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:53 am Post subject:

well im back to square one again.

my ethernet works as before, but I can't watch my videos without using the nvidia driver which doesnt' seem to work (get all those funky characters when I use "nvidia" instead of "nv"). I have seen this as a fairly common problem thru searching the forum before.

If there is some way to fix it, I sure would like to know.

Thanks a lot for all of your help and time today, if you have any more info if would be appreciated.

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:13 am Post subject:

My hardware may not be similar enough to yours, but this is what I used to get my KT400 motherboard working :
ac-sources
ACPI - [ ]
APIC - [*]
IO-APIC - [*]
via-rhine - <M>

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:16 am Post subject:

ok, I will take a look at that, thanks. I am using it right now so I will recompile and reboot later. OK, I looked - where is APIC? I didn't see it anywhere.

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:20 am Post subject:

It appears right under SMP support, but only when SMP is disabled.

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:22 am Post subject:

ok thanks, recompiling right now. does acpi need to be off?

will try it out later.

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:33 am Post subject:

In my case, via-rhine would not work with ACPI on.

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:36 am Post subject:

interesting, mine won't shut down with it off, lol

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:39 am Post subject:

I use APM to shut down the machine.

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:40 am Post subject:

that makes sense, but it didn't work for me, but when I added acpi, it worked.

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:44 am Post subject:

You could just leave the machine on 24/7 :roll:

yowwww · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:57 am Post subject:

lol, I would but then I woudn't have any chance of getting my nvidia to work :lol:

besides, I have two other os/distros on this box that I like to use.