How to use Nouveau driver for Geforce 4MX440se ?

mum1989 · 2010-04-16 16:59:43

Hi, I have got a very old PC (amd Athlon 1.3ghz etc..., with a NVIDIA Geforce MX 440 Se (64MB) (NV18)
Since 3 or 4 month NVIDIA proprietary graphic card driver doesn't work .
So now I don't have 2D aceleration, and the PC is unusable, slow.

I try nouveau driver but don't work too

My xorg.conf :

Section "Device"
       Identifier "nvidia"
       Driver "nouveau"
EndSection

and in my Xorg.0.log, it's say :
failed to open device
device not found

Last edited by mum1989 (2010-04-16 17:00:15)

flamelab · 2010-04-16 17:03:50

Have you tried without xorg.conf ?

mum1989 · 2010-04-16 17:06:50

no

flamelab · 2010-04-16 17:27:44

Then try

mum1989 · 2010-04-16 17:48:52

don't work too

(last [EE] error in Xorg.0.log : driver not found )

flamelab · 2010-04-16 17:53:35

What packages have you installed?

mum1989 · 2010-04-16 18:05:28

xf86-video-nouveau (with dependencies)

flamelab · 2010-04-16 18:11:06

Nope.

You need nouveau-drm, nouveau-firmware and xf86-video-nouveau.

mum1989 · 2010-04-16 19:21:55

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … -firmware/ (dependancie (nouveau-drm) so it installed (I saw when I install nouveau driver)

are you sure I need nouveau-firmware ???
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … -firmware/
there is say "firmware needed for NV40 and above"

whereas my graphic card is NV18 (too old)

JohnVV · 2010-04-17 06:41:04

that is odd i have a Gf mx 400 and the " NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.14-pkg1.run "
driver works just fine . using this xorg.conf ( a holdover from fedora -- but works)

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Thu Jan 28 16:14:36 PST 2010



Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL P792"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 96.0
    VertRefresh     48.0 - 170.0
    Gamma           1
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option         "NVAGP" "3"
    Option         "metamodes" "1024x768 +0+0; 1600x1200 +0+0; 1280x1024 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

mum1989 · 2010-04-17 08:48:27

thanks i will try

i've found this driver here : http://arm.kh.nu/2009/12/01/extra/os/i686/

shining · 2010-04-17 10:36:24

mum1989 wrote:

Hi, I have got a very old PC (amd Athlon 1.3ghz etc..., with a NVIDIA Geforce MX 440 Se (64MB) (NV18)
Since 3 or 4 month NVIDIA proprietary graphic card driver doesn't work .
So now I don't have 2D aceleration, and the PC is unusable, slow.
I try nouveau driver but don't work too
My xorg.conf :
Section "Device"
       Identifier "nvidia"
       Driver "nouveau"
EndSection
and in my Xorg.0.log, it's say :
failed to open device
device not found

Install nouveau-drm and paste your kernel logs (dmesg output).
If console/KMS works, but Xorg doesn't , additionally paste Xorg.0.log

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#1 2010-04-16 16:59:43

How to use Nouveau driver for Geforce 4MX440se ?

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