Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Michal Žeravík" <michalz@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Nvidia problem
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:09:12
Message-Id: 42E7328A.9030002@olomouc.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Nvidia problem by Joerg Gollnick
1 Anyone got work X transparency (composite)
2 with xcompmgr working with 2.6.12 and nvidia drivers?
3 For me it is not working even with generic nv driver.
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5 Michal
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8 Joerg Gollnick wrote:
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10 >Am Mittwoch 27 Juli 2005 04:28 schrieb Mark:
11 >
12 >
13 >>I think I've done my due diligence on this prior to asking, and have
14 >>found several posting in the forums on the issue, but the suggestions
15 >>haven't worked so far.
16 >>
17 >>After emerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, which completes without
18 >>error, I try modprobe nvidia. It fails with the following:
19 >>
20 >>FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
21 >>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r6/video/nvidia.ko): No such device
22 >>
23 >>I've tried all the suggestions I could find, including checking for
24 >>framebuffer settings in the kernel, making sure my processor is
25 >>specified correctly in the kernel, etc. I even tried the unstable
26 >>driver version by putting the lines in package.keywords.
27 >>
28 >>Any idea what could be wrong?
29 >>Thanks!
30 >>--
31 >>Mark
32 >>[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]
33 >>
34 >>--
35 >>gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
36 >>
37 >>
38 >>
39 >>
40 >Hello Mark,
41 >what is the dmesg output after you try to load the module?
42 >Your error message seem to be related to an initialisation error for your
43 >nvidia card. (nv.c return -ENODEV)
44 >What is the output of lspci | grep nVidia?
45 >Best reagrds Jörg
46 >
47 >
48 >

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Nvidia problem Michael Edwards <zappi@×××××××××××××××.de>
[gentoo-amd64] Re: Nvidia problem Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>