Re: [gentoo-desktop] Nvidia video problems

[Lindsay Haisley]

Thus spake Andreas Karlsson on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:09:27AM CDT
> 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! :)

Thanks for your encouragement, Andreas!

For what it's worth, and because you asked ....

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, 
glibc-2.3.6-r4,glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config 
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo 
http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo"
LANG="en"
LC_ALL="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress 
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X Xaw3d acl acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts 
bonobo cdr cli crypt cups curl dlloader doc dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd 
evo fastcgi flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gnome gpm gps gstreamer gtk 
gtk2 gtkhtml hal imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jikes jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww 
mad maildir mcal mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg 
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt qt3 
qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl scanner sdl session slang slp snmp 
spell spl sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts 
type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml xml2 xmms xorg xosd xv zeo zlib elibc_glibc 
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux 
userland_GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, 
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

-------------

I used the unstable nvidia-drivers package with kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r9, and 
after re-emerging an additional package (at-spi) which had gone out of sync 
with one of its libs, I got gnome working again, with Nvidia GLX support, too.

Having fallen afoul of Gentoo Bug #99564 a few weeks ago, resulting in an
unusable, very nearly an unbootable system, I backed off on doing an 'emerge 
-uDp world' every couple of days.  A huge amount of stuff had gone out of date!  
This is a pretty fast P4 system and it's been rebuilding stuff for nearly 24 
hours!  

I try to only do desktop upgrades on weekends now.  It's embarrassing when 
clients call me and I have to say "Can't help you right now.  My computer's not 
working".  I'm 'sposed to be the guy whose computer is _always_ working :-)

Now I have to figure out the New Deal with mozilla, galeon, firefox, seamonkey 
and friends, but that's a subject for another thread ....

> 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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