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Hello All,

I've followed the instructions so far from all the resources on this
newsgroup and irc. For some reason when I startx I get a screen of white
vertical lines and then blam, total system crash. The system used to be a
3dfx voodoo, I made sure I cleaned it out. Looking forward to some frag
goodies but right now 2D X won't work!! If anyone cares, the console mode in
NVIDIA color is just marvelous ... :)

Installed both the kernel drive and glx, first from rpm, then from tarball.
XF86Config has "nvidia" instead of "nv" and load glx is enabled.

Abit bp2 w/2 celerons (tried both plain and overclocked)
Creative Geforce2 MX
Red Hat Linux 7 with vanilla XF4.0.1

Disable one of your CPUs and try again. I suspect you have the single processor
setup configured - to do SMP, you need the NVIDIA kernel-smp drivers. One other
possibility is that you have an old copy of binutils - you must have at least
version 2.9.5 otherwise you will have problems.

size --version         will give you the version number.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

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Toby Haynes
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Greetings,
  I think it is more like your hardware is too new (like mine). From
www.nvidia.com, the faq mentioned that Geforce2 MX is not supported. I
have GeForce2 GTS, X window works fine with RH7 and XF4.0.1 but
performer crash on execution. No hardware acceleration.

will really appreciate it.

  Thanks

Simon

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Quote:>Hello All,

>I've followed the instructions so far from all the resources on this
>newsgroup and irc. For some reason when I startx I get a screen of white
>vertical lines and then blam, total system crash. The system used to be a
>3dfx voodoo, I made sure I cleaned it out. Looking forward to some frag
>goodies but right now 2D X won't work!! If anyone cares, the console mode in
>NVIDIA color is just marvelous ... :)

>Installed both the kernel drive and glx, first from rpm, then from tarball.
>XF86Config has "nvidia" instead of "nv" and load glx is enabled.

>Abit bp2 w/2 celerons (tried both plain and overclocked)
>Creative Geforce2 MX
>Red Hat Linux 7 with vanilla XF4.0.1

I have Just the same problem

Single processor ABIT BE6-II ??? 600Mhz
Creative Geforce2 MX
Red Hat Linux 6.2 upgraded to 7.0 with vanilla XF4.0.1

I have tried with nvivia drivers and also upgrading to X4.0.1c with nv
and nvivia drivers and I get this screen corruption.

Has anyone got a creative GeForce MX working ??

        james

Go into your BIOS and crank AGP down to 1x only. Then try again. If it works,
then it is a buggy high-speed AGP problem. If not, then try disabling Nvidia's
AGP code and using the Linux AGP GART routines instead - add the line

Options "NvAgp" "0"

to the Section "Screen" ... EndSection part of the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.

This last fix gave me a dramatic improvement in the stability of my system
(Athlon 650MHz running on an AMD 750 Irongate chipset).

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

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Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.