Video Problems for Precision 390

[John Arends]

Rogelio_Noriega at Dell.com wrote:
> 
> A couple of questions.
> 
> 1. what is the version of the nvidia driver and is it 32 or 64bit?

I am running 32 bit RHEL. The nvideo about box says I am running 100.14.19

> 2. What error are you seeing when you try to build the driver from
> source and do you have the kernel-headers rpm installed?

When I try to rebuild the latest src rpm you posted for my 32 bit RHEL 
machine, I get this error:

+ cp dkms.conf /usr/src/nvidia-169.12
+ dkms add -m nvidia -v 169.12
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6431: line 39: dkms: command not found
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6431 (%build)


RPM build errors:
     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6431 (%build)

I do have dkms installed. I also have kernel-headers installed.


> 3. Do you have swiotlb=65536 option set in grub.conf if you don't added
> it and reboot?

I put this in when you suggested it and rebooted(I have 4 gigs of RAM) 
and it has not helped.

Thanks

-John

> 
> I hope this helps. 
> 
> Thanks Roger
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-precision-bounces at dell.com on behalf of John Arends
> Sent: Fri 3/7/2008 4:01 PM
> To: linux-precision-Lists
> Subject: Video Problems for Precision 390
>  
> I'm having 3 nagging video problems with my precision 390 running RHEL5:
> 
> 1. After a period of inactivity, the display goes to sleep even though I
> have the display sleeping disabled. The only way to get back in to the
> machine is to type control-alt F1 and ctrl-alt-f7.
> 
> 2. The corners of all windows show up looking squared off. Something
> might be wrong with transparency?
> 
> 3. When I open NVIDEA X Server Settings and click on OpenGL/GLX
> Information, X immediately restarts and I end up back at the logon
> screen.
> 
> None of these things happened when I used the Dell supplied version of
> RHEL4 that came with the machine. Ever since I installed RHEL 5 I have
> had these problems. I just used a generic version of the RHEL5
> Workstation version, and then installed the latest dkms and NVIDIA
> driver rpm from the linux.dell.com site.
> 
> Is there a better way for me to have a "Dell happy" version of RHEL5 on
> here? We already pay for RHEL5 directly through RedHat so I don't want
> to buy it from Dell.
> 
> Also, does Dell not officially support 32 bit RHEL? My choices for the
> nvidia drivers have always been a 64 bit RPM or a source RPM that I
> rebuild on my machine.
> 
> I tried to rebuild the src RPM that someone posted earlier in the week
> but the rebuild is not successful.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to deal with these issues?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -John
>