Nvidia drivers don't work on Compaq Athlon 64 laptop in Fedora Core 3

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:53:52 -0500

I've been trying to get the latest Nvidia driver to work on my Compaq
R3000z Athlon 64 laptop. I'm running 64 bit Fedora Core 3 with
the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel. The screen size is 1680x1050 which seems to be
the source of my problem, The Nvidia driver doesn't seem to understand
that size. The Xorg drivers work fine and I was able to use an earlier
version of the Nvidia drivers (what ever was current back in August) but
the last two releases haven't worked. My screen is white pixels on one
side and grey on the other. Here is my xorg.conf, does anyone see anything
wrong here?

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "Default Layout"
        Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
        RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "dbe"
        Load "glx"
        Load "extmod"
        Load "freetype"
        Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Monitor0"
        VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName "LCD Panel 1680x1050"
        HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
        VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
        Option "dpms"
        UseModes "16:10"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
    # 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz
    Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
    # Here we define 16:10 modes
    Identifier "16:10"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Videocard0"
        Driver "nvidia"
        VendorName "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
# Option "backingstore" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device "Videocard0"
        Monitor "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth 24
                Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group 0
        Mode 0666
EndSection
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Here is the Xorg.log file

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF0000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE2000000
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce4 440 Go 64M
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.17.20.46.25
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 4X
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kBytes
(II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): DFP-0
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at 8 bpp: 350 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 350 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 350 MHz
(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/libddc.a
(II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 6.8.1, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The user specified HorizSync "31.500-90.000" has been adjusted
(WW) NVIDIA(0): to "31.500-49.000" (the intersection with EDID-specified
(WW) NVIDIA(0): HorizSync "29.000-49.000")
(II) NVIDIA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 31.50-49.00 kHz
(II) NVIDIA(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh value of 60.00 Hz
(II) NVIDIA(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 350.00 MHz
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x400" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x200" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "720x400" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "360x200" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1152x864" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "832x624" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "416x312" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1152x768" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "576x384" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1152x864" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x512" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1680x1050" (no mode of this name)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (no mode of this name)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1280x960" (no mode of this name)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device DFP-0:
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 40.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "512x384": 32.5 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "400x300": 20.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz (D)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "320x240": 12.6 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.1 Hz (D)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display dimensions: (320, 240) mm
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (81, 81)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/libfb.a
(II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 6.8.1, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
(II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/libramdac.a
(II) Module ramdac: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 6.8.1, module version = 0.1.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
        [0] 0 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf807ffff (0x80000) MX[B]
        [1] 0 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B]
        [2] 0 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B]
        [3] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
        [4] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
        [5] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
        [6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
        [7] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
        [8] -1 0 0xe0104000 - 0xe0105fff (0x2000) MX[B]
        [9] -1 0 0xe0108800 - 0xe01088ff (0x100) MX[B]
        [10] -1 0 0xe0100000 - 0xe0103fff (0x4000) MX[B]
        [11] -1 0 0xe0108000 - 0xe01087ff (0x800) MX[B]
        [12] -1 0 0xe0003000 - 0xe0003fff (0x1000) MX[B]
        [13] -1 0 0xe0002000 - 0xe0002fff (0x1000) MX[B]
        [14] -1 0 0xe0004000 - 0xe00040ff (0x100) MX[B]
        [15] -1 0 0xe0001000 - 0xe0001fff (0x1000) MX[B]
        [16] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0000fff (0x1000) MX[B]
        [17] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xe7ffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
        [18] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
        [19] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
        [20] -1 0 0xe2000000 - 0xe2ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
        [21] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B](OprD)
        [22] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD)
        [23] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD)
        [24] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
        [25] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
        [26] -1 0 0x00007400 - 0x0000743f (0x40) IX[B]
        [27] -1 0 0x00007000 - 0x000070ff (0x100) IX[B]
        [28] -1 0 0x00002080 - 0x0000208f (0x10) IX[B]
        [29] -1 0 0x00001c80 - 0x00001cff (0x80) IX[B]
        [30] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x000018ff (0x100) IX[B]
        [31] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001c7f (0x80) IX[B]
        [32] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B]
        [33] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x0000203f (0x40) IX[B]
        [34] -1 0 0x00002040 - 0x0000207f (0x40) IX[B]
        [35] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B](OprU)
        [36] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B](OprU)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
(**) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 5
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: Core Keyboard
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Kernel Input Handler" (type: Other)
(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
AUDIT: Sun Dec 19 12:07:10 2004: 3464 X: client 5 rejected from local host

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