Re: [gentoo-hardened] xorg/nv woes

[bbruce]

Thanks,
I've tried both (nv - the xfree/xorg nvidia driver and nvidia - the
NVidia [non-gpl'd] driver) - neither works.  Nv gives the vgaHWUnmapMem
error, and nvidia gives grief with PaX.  Thanks anyways.

Brian.


On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, Michael wrote:
> Hey Brian,
>
> Though I'm not using hardened myself, I think I figured out
> the problem... The driver should probably not be nv but
> nvidia... Might wanna give that a try.
> Greetings,
>
> Michael
>
> bbruce wrote:
> > BTW:
> >
> > Yes, I've tried going back to 6.8.0-r1, with NO success either.
> > Unfortunately, I have deleted the "patch" that I used before, and it
> > appears to have been "updated" since - no longer providing the success I
> > previously experienced - if in fact I found the correct patch the second
> > time.  Compiling STATIC is not really an option because I would like to
> > use XF4VNC on :0, which is not possible when statically compiled.  The
> > other major updates that occurred while I was on vacation where several
> > kernel updates r9 to r16, binutils updated to 2.15.0.94-1, gcc updated
> > to 3.4.3-branch, glibc updated to the Nov. version of 2.3.4.
> >
> > Brian.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 17:24, bbruce wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry Nick,
> > >
> > > Here we go,
> > >
> > > I had xorg 6.8.0-r1 working with the NV driver, or there was a "patch"
> > > floating around that worked to get the nvdia driver working - I was
> > > actually able to get both up and running - then I went on holidays.
> > > When I came back, the next update I did, updated me to xorg-6.8.0-r3.
> > > and now X won't load - period.  It gets killed by pax when attempting
> > > the nvidia-kernel/nvidia glx drivers (which really aren't needed in my
> > > case), and I get the always memorable
> > >
> > > (II) LoadModule: "nv"
> > > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
> > > dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so: undefined symbol:
> > > vgaHWUnmapMem
> > > (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
> > >
> > > error when attempting the nv module (yes, after rmmod'ing nvidia).
> > >
> > > I remember there was a web page/site that had instructions on how to
> > > "manually load" in the xorg.conf file all the "missing" files, but I
> > > can't find that hint around anywhere now.
> > >
> > > I'm running a standard gentoo-hardened with the following "development"
> > > versions:
> > >
> > > sys-kernel/linux26-headers ~x86
> > > sys-apps/portage ~x86
> > > sys-apps/coldplug ~x86
> > > sys-apps/hotplug ~x86
> > > sys-devel/gcc ~x86
> > > sys-devel/binutils ~x86
> > > sys-devel/binutils-config ~x86
> > > sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 ~x86
> > > sys-libs/glibc ~x86
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help offered.
> > >
> > > Brian.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 16:36, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:07, B.G. Bruce wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Has anyone had success with xorg-6.8.0-r3 and the nv drivers?  If so,
> > > > > how?  I've followed the instructions from
> > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedxorg.xml, but still can't
> > > > > get it to work.
> > > > >
> > > > Brian,
> > > > You have to be more descriptive of the problem you having before anybody
> > > > can make comments or offer suggestions.
> > > >
> > > > random comment 90% of all xorg problems are solved with USE=static
> > > >
> > > >
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