Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg with nvidia driver problems

On Friday 28 October 2005 03:12, sean wrote:
> I followed the instructions to get the nvidia driver working on my
> system here, but obviously since I am writing, it is giving me problems.
> Information below, and thanks in advance for the help.
> 		Sean

read the README!

you obviously did not read it!

>
> Section "Module"
>          Load  "extmod"
>          Load  "dri"
remove dri - it is in the readme, so remove it.

>          Load  "dbe"
>          Load  "record"
>          Load  "xtrap"

are you sure you need xtrap and record? If not you can safely remove them.

>          Load  "glx"
>          Load  "type1"
>          Load  "freetype"
> EndSection

you could also load 'ddc' which will make modelines superflous.


>
> Section "Device"
>          ### Available Driver options are:-
>          ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>          ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>          ### [arg]: arg optional
>          #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>          #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>          #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>          #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
>          #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
>          #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
>          #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
>          #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
>          #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
>          #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
>          #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
>          #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>
>          Identifier  "Card 0"
> #       Driver      "nvidia"
>          Driver      "nv"
remove the 'nv' that is plainly wrong - and also explained in the README, 
several Desktop and nvidia guides, howtos and wikis. Which you all did not 
read.

>          VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>          BoardName   "Unknown Board"
>          BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"
this is not needed, remove&retry - it may hurt you

>          VideoRam    256000
this is absolutly not needed.

>          Option      "NvAGP" "1" # use nvidias agp - 1 , agpgart -2,

> agpgart,nvagp -3

I really hope, that this newline came from the mail-application we are using.


After you made the changes.
/etc/init.d/xdm zap
rmmod nvidia
/etc/init.d/xdm start
does it complain?
if yes:
/etc/init.d/xdm zap
modprobe nvidia
/etc/init.d/xdm start
add nvidia to autoload.

oh, and here is my very working xorg.conf:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
#
Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

    Load        "dbe"   # Double buffer extension
    Load        "extmod"
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "speedo"
    Load        "freetype"
#    Load        "xtt"
    Load       "glx"
    Load        "v4l"
    Load        "ddc"

EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection



# **********************************************************************
# Files section.  This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"

    RgbPath     "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"

    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/"

    ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"


EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************

# **********************************************************************
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"

    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel"   "pc102"
    Option "XkbLayout"  "de"

EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of monitor sections may be present

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "ibm"

    HorizSync   31.5-96
    VertRefresh 50-85
    Option     "dpms"
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************


Section "Device"
    Identifier  "5200"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    #VideoRam    131072
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate

    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option "backingstore" "true"
 #   Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present.  Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen.  A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "5200"
    Monitor     "ibm"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "640x400"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"

# The Identifier line must be present
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"

    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection
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