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Mark, just a note I am quite happy with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 |
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working perfectly on oldy MX 440, because legacy drivers too much legacy and |
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are no good with both X session switching and GL while 1.0.9631 just crash |
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and 1.0.9742 do not support the card anymore. Since it is probably the last |
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version which will ever work on MX440 at all I suggest to make a backup of |
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the ebuild just in case it will fade from portage in he future. |
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(Sorry for top posting, but original is too long and epic for me to snap |
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details) |
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Petr |
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On Tuesday 19 December 2006 02:39, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm doing updates to my dad's Gentoo machine 350 miles away. It |
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> pretty much hasn't been touched in about a year as per his request. |
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> However we agreed it was time to move forward so I've done the |
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> gcc-4.1.1 upgrade and rebuilt the machine completely. At the command |
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> line from here things look like they are running with the new kernel. |
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> ivtv is up for MythTV recording. I don't know how to tell what state |
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> his screen is in since he isn't home to look at it. However I seem to |
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> be having problems with the NVidia drivers so I'm looking for some |
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> help. |
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> |
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> When I first built the machine I installed nvidia-drivers. After |
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> rebooting with the new 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 kernel nvidia was loaded but |
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> got a message in dmesg telling me that the card is supported by |
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> nvidia-legacy-drivers: |
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> |
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> <SNIP> |
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> NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X GPU installed in this system is |
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> NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA Legacy drivers. Please |
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> NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more |
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> NVRM: information. The 1.0-9742 NVIDIA driver will ignore |
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> NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe... |
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> NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found! |
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> <SNIP> |
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> |
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> I then removed that NVidia package and emerged |
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> nvidia-drivers-legacy. It seemed to emerge but I saw this message when |
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> building it: |
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> |
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> <SNIP> |
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> test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( |
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> \ |
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> echo; \ |
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> echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ |
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> echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or |
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> include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\ |
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> echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel |
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> src to fix it."; \ |
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> echo; \ |
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> /bin/false) |
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> <SNIP> |
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> |
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> However I think the driver does load as I see this at the end of dmesg: |
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> |
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> <SNIP> |
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> Adding 1172264k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1172264k |
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> eth0: setting full-duplex. |
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> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 5 |
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> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNK4] -> GSI 5 (level, |
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> low) -> IRQ 5 |
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> NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-7184 Tue Aug 1 |
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> 18:38:58 PDT 2006 |
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> gandalf ~ # |
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> <SNIP> |
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> |
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> The problem I seem to be having right now is with xdm. It stops OK, |
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> but when I try to start it I get these messages: |
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> |
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> <SNIP> |
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> gandalf ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm stop |
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> * Stopping xdm ... |
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> [ ok ] |
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> gandalf ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm status |
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> * status: stopped |
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> gandalf ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm start |
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> * Setting up xdm ... |
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> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory |
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> (No such file or directory) |
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> * ERROR: could not start the Display Manager... |
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> xdm: no process killed |
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> [ ok ] |
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> gandalf ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm status |
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> * status: started |
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> gandalf ~ # |
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> <SNIP> |
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> |
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> So it seems, from 350 miles away, that xdm is stopping and |
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> starting, but I get error messages. What's up with that? |
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> |
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> What I'm really wondering right now is what is being displayed on |
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> his screen? Is there a login window? Seems like maybe it's working: |
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> |
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> gandalf ~ # ps aux | grep xdm |
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> root 11983 0.0 0.1 1604 524 pts/0 R+ 17:38 0:00 grep |
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> --colour=auto xdm |
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> gandalf ~ # |
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> |
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> but what is that error message above telling me? What else can I do |
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> from here to investigate the state of this remote machine? |
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> |
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> Thanks in advance! |
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> |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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