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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:20:57 -0400, J. Patrick Campbell
<patrick@lowmips.com> wrote:
> i'm using kernel 2.6.8r3 athlon xp 1800+ nvidia drivers 5336
> launching ut2004 causes my system to lock up after a few seconds. i've
> got the latest ut patches. no idea where to start looking to solve this.

I've found the '6111' nvidia drivers to work better with x.org and 2.6
kernels than the previous versions. You could try upgrading to the
newer version to see if that helps.

Another thing to try, that fixed some "random" crashes in ut for me was to add
Option "NvAGP" "1"
to the Device section of your xorg.conf, to tell the nvidia driver to
use an alternate method of acessing the agp hardware. Note that this
doesn't work (afaik) if you have agpgart compiled into your kernel or
loaded as a module.

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:27:04PM -0400, Calvin Walton wrote:
> I've found the '6111' nvidia drivers to work better with x.org and 2.6
> <snip>
> Option "NvAGP" "1"
> <snip>
> doesn't work (afaik) if you have agpgart compiled into your kernel or

I have the same problem on a friend's machine - UT2k4 crashes after about 30 seconds of play, hard-locking the machine. It uses the 6111 nvidia-kernel, 2.6.9-rc2 kernel, NvAGP, no agpgart, x.org 6.8.0-r1...
I'll try the 6111-r1 nvidia-kernel tonight and see if it makes a difference.
Tom

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 21:27, Calvin Walton wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:20:57 -0400, J. Patrick Campbell
> <patrick@lowmips.com> wrote:
> > i'm using kernel 2.6.8r3 athlon xp 1800+ nvidia drivers 5336
> > launching ut2004 causes my system to lock up after a few seconds. i've
> > got the latest ut patches. no idea where to start looking to solve this.
>
> I've found the '6111' nvidia drivers to work better with x.org and 2.6
> kernels than the previous versions. You could try upgrading to the
> newer version to see if that helps.
>
> Another thing to try, that fixed some "random" crashes in ut for me was to add
> Option "NvAGP" "1"
> to the Device section of your xorg.conf, to tell the nvidia driver to
> use an alternate method of acessing the agp hardware. Note that this
> doesn't work (afaik) if you have agpgart compiled into your kernel or
> loaded as a module.

i tried the NvAGP and unloading agpgart and it works now!
thanks,

2.6.8r3 and 5336 nvidia drivers

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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:21, Thomas Kirchner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:27:04PM -0400, Calvin Walton wrote:
> > I've found the '6111' nvidia drivers to work better with x.org and 2.6
> > <snip>
> > Option "NvAGP" "1"
> > <snip>
> > doesn't work (afaik) if you have agpgart compiled into your kernel or
>
> I have the same problem on a friend's machine - UT2k4 crashes after about 30 seconds of play, hard-locking the machine. It uses the 6111 nvidia-kernel, 2.6.9-rc2 kernel, NvAGP, no agpgart, x.org 6.8.0-r1...
> I'll try the 6111-r1 nvidia-kernel tonight and see if it makes a difference.
> Tom

This worked for me but i'm on the 5336 drivers. The game crashed after
about 20 minutes of play so I'm impressed. Think i should give 6111-r1 a
spin?

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