Re: [gentoo-user] Newcomer: Nvidia from GRP and MX4000

[Ian Porter]

Hi
On Sunday 23 October 2005 02:55, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card.
>
> I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the
> Packages (GRP) disk. This has been a no-net install so far.
>
> Trying to configure Xorg, after installing nvidia-kernel driver and
> nvidia-glx.
> Xorg -configure
> then
> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
>
> I also did "modprobe nvidia"
>
> I am receiving the message
>
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!

I did not use the Xorg -configure, but these are the first things that I  
check to make sure that there is the following lines within 
your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

For the nvidia drivers
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "nvidiaCard"
        Driver      "nvidia"
EndSection

And there should be a link within the screen section to your (mine) nvidiaCard
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "nvidiaCard"
.....

This is my section for the Module, for the nvidia cards you need to unselect 
the dri module and include the glx.

Section "Module"
        Load "freetype"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        #Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

If you have these options created then make sure there is the 
/etc/modules.d/nvidia 
file, mine has

# Nvidia drivers support
alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195

within it (if you have to add it do an modules-update)

HTH
Ian
>
> Then the process aborted.
>
> I haven't found (yet) any suggestions, except to install a newer version of
> the nvidia-kernel.
>
> I fear I will have to upgrade the whole system now, once I can get online,
> which may be days away.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Alan Davis
>
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