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On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:10:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: |
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> > > I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a |
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> > |
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> > few |
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> > times. |
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> > |
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> > > Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the |
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> > xorg.conf file. |
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> > > Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about |
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> > the |
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> > |
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> > > card. It was using the generic "nv" driver and it still wouldn't |
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> > work. |
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> > IMO its a waste of time to worry about any of this other stuff - the |
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> > EE's in |
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> > the log file are ERRORs, directly pointing at serious issues with |
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> > missing |
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> > modules. So either the modules dont exist, or xorg cant find them. |
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> > There's no evidence of a problem with the nvidia module or the |
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> > hardware. |
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> I don't think that's true. |
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> In my Xorg.0.log I do have |
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> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) |
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> .... |
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> (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) |
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> and still, X11 is running just fine. I think these modules are |
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> superfluous with a recent Xorg version. |
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> Helmut. |
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I agree, just checked on all the machines I am running Gentoo on with Nvidia |
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cards and they all have those 2 EE-lines. |
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Both of these have 2 monitors hooked up and that is working correctly. |
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Joost Roeleveld |
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