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Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Can someone give me some guidance with regard to setting up xorg-x11-7.0-r1 to |
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> work with my Gainward GeForce 4 video card? Everything was working just fine |
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> with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 but after an emerge, X refuses to run! I get the |
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> following complaint in my Xorg.0.log file: |
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> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! |
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> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** |
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> I've tried installing (unstable) nvidia-drivers and nvidia-legacy-drivers, but |
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> the kernel complains about an invlaid kernel module. I get the same error if I |
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> use the (stable) nvidia-kernel module. My current kernel version is |
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> 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. I can't go backwards. Because xorg-x11 has been so |
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> thoroughly reorganized and modularized I have something like 134 blockers |
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> (individual packages!) which would have to be individually removed before I |
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> could back-version to my previous xorg-x11. |
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> So I'm stuck without a desktop system until I can get this figured out. Any |
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> solid advice will be very much appreciated. |
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That happened to me a couple months ago, but I was never able to get a |
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working set of nvidia-driver/glx again. I switched to nv, which (as you |
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probably know) doesn't have any kind of 3D acceleration, but has yet to |
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bail out on me. |
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Things to look for (none of them worked for me but just in case) : |
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- presence of /dev/nvidia* |
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- recompile nvidia-kernel for your new kernel |
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- 4K stacks in your kernel |
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- ... |
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Sorry if I can't be of much more help. |
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Rémi |
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