[SLE] An nVidia/Sax issue I need help with

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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:16:26 -0700
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com, linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com

Hello -

I am running SuSE9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. I was trying to get
3D support going and in a round-about manner discovered my nVidia driver
apparently was not current. So I used YOU (SuSE's Yast Online Updater)
to update it as per instructions found on nVidia's and SuSE web sites.
This certainly made a difference in my 3D performance (Gears
xscreensaver for example doubled its speed from 20FPS to around 40FPS)

However, I now got a couple of new problems and I can't figure out how
to resolve it. First the display size is slightly off in the height, but
width is OK. To be more specific the display seems to be about a quarter
of an inch greater in height now than the actual physical size of my
laptops screen. This means I have to move the mouse up to the top or
down to the bottom in order to shift the display and bring the portion
that is truncated back into the display. Rather weird I know....

The second issue is more serious. The display of color images is now
seriously degraded, as if I have only 8 or 16 bit color. Even though in
Sax2 it reports I have it set for 24bit color. I can't seem to find any
other setting that will fix this...

One thing I have tried is to use Sax to turn off the 3D acceleration
support. That resulted in SAX saying it was going to unload the nVidia
drivers, which I told it to go ahead an do. On reboot, the screen
display came back ok including both the height of the display and the
color rendering of images, but of course no 3D acceleration.

I then reloaded the nVidia drivers via YOU and the symptoms came back,
so I think that is a pretty good smoking gun that there is something
wrong with the nVidia drivers???

Anyone got any ideas on how I should proceed? How do I get 3D
acceleration to work and the display/color rendering to also work?

Some additional info that may help, I have no idea what this stuff all
means but reading other posts it seems to be important to someone so
will toss in --

   Marc...

marcslaptop:/usr/lib/xscreensaver # 3Ddiag
3Ddiag version 0.722
Verifying 3D configuration:
Using 3dinfo
************************************************************

Verifying 3D configuration for 3D board "nVidia Corporation GeForce2 Go
(10de@0112)":

Verifying driver installation:
  nvidia ... done.

Tests for X.Org configuration:
  Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done.
  Driver ... done.
  Extensions ... done.
  Options ... done.

Checking GL/GLU/glut runtime configuration:
  GL/GLU ... done (package xorg-x11-Mesa)
  glut ... done (package freeglut)

-------------------------
marcslaptop:/usr/lib/xscreensaver # glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
server glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
    GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
    GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer
GLX extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE
OpenGL version string: 1.5.1 NVIDIA 61.11
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
    GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects, GL_ARB_shading_language_100,
    GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,
    GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
    GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
    GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
    GL_S3_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra,
    GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
    GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
    GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
    GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_paletted_texture,
GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object,
    GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
    GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette,
    GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc,
    GL_EXT_texture_cube_map, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,
    GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
    GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod,
    GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
    GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
    GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_fence,
    GL_NV_fog_distance, GL_NV_light_max_exponent,
GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil,
    GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_register_combiners,
    GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_env_combine4,
    GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vertex_array_range,
    GL_NV_vertex_array_range2, GL_NV_vertex_program,
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1,
    GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_multitexture, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
    GL_SUN_slice_accum
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

   visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
 id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x21 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x22 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2b 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2c 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2d 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2e 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2f 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x32 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x33 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x34 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x35 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x36 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x37 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x38 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None

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