Re: [gentoo-desktop] Nvidia video problems

[Lindsay Haisley]

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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