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I will try the latest version when I next have a chance. |
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As an additional note, my xorg.cong works fine with the vesa driver, so |
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the rest of the setup is fine. |
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Thanks, |
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Spencer |
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B Vance wrote: |
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>With Nvidia-drivers, the unstable are the best ones to use. I'd try |
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>using the most recent release (1.0.8178-r3) and the same for |
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>nvidia-glx. |
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>Just as a note.. Make sure that you haven't accidentally put your |
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>monitor resolution too high for it to show or at an incorrect Hz range. |
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>B. Vance |
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>On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:18 -0500, Spencer Ogden wrote: |
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>>Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I wasn't able to find |
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>>any resent postings about similar problems. |
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>>I have a fresh install of 2006.0 amd64 on a Gigabyte , which includes |
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>>onboard Nvidia video, calling itself a GeForce 6150. I am running |
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>>stable, with the 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 kernel. The nvidia-kernel driver |
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>>compiles and loads fine, version 1.0.6629-r5. |
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>>This first problem was that loading the module does not create the |
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>>/dev/nvidia* nodes. Running /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh fixed this. Are there |
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>>missing udev rules? The load event shows up in udevmonitor. |
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>>That at least allowed X to try and load. Only now I get a blank screen, |
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>>which is totally unresponsive, even to Cntl-Alt-BS. Only a reset gets me |
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>>out of it (Can't kill X remotely). There are no mentions of problems in |
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>>the log. |
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>>I have tried some of the random fixes mentioned on line including: |
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>>Option "NoRenderExtension" |
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>>Option "NvAGP" "1" or "0" |
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>>But haven't made any progress. There have been many postings over the |
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>>years about blank screen on amd64 platforms, but none with recent |
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>>kernels and Nvidia driver versions. |
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>>Are these known problems? Should I try the unstable versions? |
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>>Thanks in advance, |
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>>Spencer |
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