gforce2 (MX400) with nvida drivers 1.0-4349

[Gerry Doris]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Collins Richey wrote:

> I've just installed the nvidia drivers on my Slack 9.0 system, and the
> only way it will work is to disable AGP.  It craps out totally with
> either the kernel agp module or the nvidia agp module, but it works ok
> with agp disabled.
> 
> I'm on a Aazza KT3-AV with KT133A chipset and an Athlon-XP 1800. 
> There are lots of writeups in the nvidia doc about via chipsets and/or
> Athlon processors, but none of them seem applicable to my situation. 
> I've even tried changing the AGP Driving setting in the BIOS to a range
> recommended by nvidia.
> 
> I've also done a fair amount of googling to no avail.
> 
> Syptoms are the screen turns to total black and white garbage as soon as
> the X server starts; only ctl-alt-del will cure the problem.  The
> standard X drivers worked ok with AGP enabled.
> 
> Anyone have an opinion?

I tried using the new driver on a MX440 card and it worked.  This was on a 
Dell P2 400Mhz system.  

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer