Hi. I can't get worked Nvidia 8400M G on my laptop.
I'm using Fedora 8. It's up to date.
Commands I used after a fresh install:
init 3
yum update
reboot
--- so far everything is OK.
yum install kmod-nvidia
reboot
----Everything is OK again.
But after log in Gnome some of followings happen:
* while moving windows some white areas appears on screen
* on some program windows vertical and horizental "empty" areas appears and it gets normal if I minimize/maximize program (or I switch another desktop and back).
* Sometimes screen freezes (except mouse pointer), and box is out of control. I can't switch to any Virtual Terminal.
* If I open a divx with kaffeine screen freezes for a while (15-20 secs) and after that video goes like fast forward. If I open divx with KPlayer X completely freezes.
* Some components of program forms (button, label, check box...) disappear or appears incorrect place or not appear correctly at all.
All of this behaviors happens randomly and in 10 minutes X freezes completely. (sometimes only mouse pointer left movable)
While I discover this behaviors of X, after login I typed as root: "shutdown -hP 5" in a terminal and started doing something (open films, moving windows...). System goes down after 5 minutes if X freezes or not.
So I think only X crashes, System work properly.
If I remove kmod-nvidia via yum everything is fine like before install kmod-nvidia.
My laptop is Acer 5520G:
Nvidia 8400M G, 2GB DDR2, Turion TL58...
My lspci output:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0541 (rev a2)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0543 (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0561 (rev a2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
01:04.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
01:04.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
01:04.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
01:04.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M G (rev a1)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
output of "lspci -v" for graphic card:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M G (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0126
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at cc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Kernel modules: nvidiafb
xorg.conf ( kmod-nvidia installed) :
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "tr"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
What should I do to get worked nvidia?
What is wrong with this?
Am I missing something?
Or kmod-nvidia does not support GeForce8400M G yet?
Or what?
Please help.
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