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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3646 |
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-mike |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Denis Shcherbakov" <deniss@×××××××××.EDU> |
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To: <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 18:33 |
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] NVIDIA drivers |
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> Hello... |
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> I have just installed Gentoo and also installed and compiled X and KDE. I |
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> have a GeForce3 Nvidia chip in my graphics card (64-MB Asus V8200), and so |
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> I thought I'd use the new drivers. |
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> So I followed the instructions to install those, using Code Listings 8 |
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> thru 10 in the Desktop Guide, and after I made those modifications, I |
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> started X, only to see |
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> NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module |
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> As a result, X did not find any usable screens and died with a fatal |
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> error. |
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> After looking in /var/log/messages, I saw the following message |
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> corresponding to an attempt to load NVdriver module into the kernel: |
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> nvidia: couldn't map registers! |
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> Before I made the modifications to use new Nvidia drivers, X started and |
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> ran just fine from startx. It gave no errors. |
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> Let me give you some detail about my system. I've a dual-processor |
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> machine with 2.2GHz Xeons sitting on Tyan 2603 motherboard (Thunder i860 |
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> chipset), with 2GB Rambus RDRAM. I compiled the kernel for it |
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> successfully, and there are no errors at boot. The graphics card has a |
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> GeForce3 chip with 64MB of video RAM. I have a Sony flat 21'' monitor, |
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> CPD-G520. Like I said, my X worked ok before i messed with Nvidia |
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> drivers. |
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> I saw an instruction document for Nvidia on www.gentoo.org, but it was |
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> only in French!! DOH. I could really use some help about this. This |
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> seems like a very common error, and a LOT of people are reporting this |
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> same thing, and yet there seems to be no solution that I could find. |
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> Please advise. Please let me know what other info you might need. |
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> Best, |
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> Denis |
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