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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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