Re: [gentoo-desktop] Nvidia video problems

[Andreas Karlsson]

Hi,

Can you please post your 'emerge --info'? It feels like there are more to this 
than just a broken nvidia-module...

And mate, hang in there, we'll help you out! :)

Best regards,
Andreas Karlsson
Sweden

On Sunday 16 July 2006 23:48, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> Thus spake Andreas Karlsson on Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:46:11PM CDT
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did you upgrade your kernel in the recent emerge? Do a 'ls -la /usr/src'
> > to check that the symb-link is pointing to the current kernel. Otherwise
> > a recompile of nvidia-kernel will produce a module for the wrong kernel
> > version.
>
> Yes, I upgraded my kernel and my /usr/src/linux link is proper.  I used the
> stable version of nvidia-kernel and it didn't work.  dmesg says this:
>
> nvidia: Unknown symbol remap_page_range
> nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_find_class
>
> So I upgraded to the unstable nvidia drivers, and ran 'eselect opengl set
> nvidia' which allowed me to start the X server, at least, with the nvidia
> driver running.
>
> Now gnome won't run, although I can start a kde session.  I get the
> following when I run startx as my normal user:
>
> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
>
> ** ERROR **: Accessibility app error: exception during registry activation
> from id: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0
>
> Running revdep-rebuild shows a ton of broken lib references, but it's
> trying to rebuild slotted packages which are no longer in the portage tree,
> and the syntax it's feeding to emerge is broken and causing emerge to fail,
> maybe due to recent changes in portage output.  I don't know if this is the
> problem, but it's a place to start.  Upgrading gentoolkit helped with the
> syntax issue, apparently.
>
> Quite frankly, I'm getting a bit gun-shy with gentoo.  I know it produces a
> very optimized set of executable components, but the last couple of times
> I've tried to upgrade my desktop system it's been an all day job getting
> things back to normal again.  I just don't have that kind of time.
>
> Still pluggin' away, though :-)
>
> > On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:51, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > > Can someone give me some guidance with regard to setting up
> > > xorg-x11-7.0-r1 to work with my Gainward GeForce 4 video card?
> > > Everything was working just fine with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 but after an
> > > emerge, X refuses to run!  I get the following complaint in my
> > > Xorg.0.log file:
> > >
> > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
> > > (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> > >
> > > I've tried installing (unstable) nvidia-drivers and
> > > nvidia-legacy-drivers, but the kernel complains about an invlaid kernel
> > > module.  I get the same error if I use the (stable) nvidia-kernel
> > > module.  My current kernel version is 2.6.15-gentoo-r1.  I can't go
> > > backwards.  Because xorg-x11 has been so thoroughly reorganized and
> > > modularized I have something like 134 blockers (individual packages!)
> > > which would have to be individually removed before I could back-version
> > > to my previous xorg-x11.
>
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