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I just caught the tail of this thread... is this about an nvidia video? |
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If so, even under Ubuntu I had troubles with X. I downloaded the nvidia |
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source for the driver for mine (on a couple of different machines), and |
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compiled it, then modprobe'd it, then added it to the autoload conf file. |
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X worked very nicely after that. I just went through this same headache |
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with another Dell (D420) which had an Intel graphics onboard chip. |
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Although, in that instance, Noven really came through, showing me some of |
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his xorg.conf file, and pointing out the need for some fancy driver |
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loading... |
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Nvidia seems to have its own brand of headache with Linux on a few distro's. |
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I've taken it as a rule of thumb to compile-load-add_to_conf to avoid all of |
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their mess on all of my machines. |
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I don't know if gentoo has this in portage (easy enough to check for it), |
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but Ubuntu has an nvidia-kernel package that is apt-able, and then with the |
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driver in hand, it can be compiled and loaded. I'm sure gentoo, (being a |
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superior development machine) has it (or something quite similar). |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Mick [mailto:michaelkintzios@×××××.com] |
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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:44 AM |
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To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710 |
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On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:08, Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm having a heck of a time. I've tried so many things, that I'm |
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> totally confused. |
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> |
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> After installing xorg-x11, I ran Xorg -configure. It gives me a file |
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> with no horizontal or vertical sync. |
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I would think then that you would have to enter these yourself - check the |
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manufacturers manual, or the equivalent OEM product specification. What I |
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mean here is that Dell are assemblers, or box-shifters, they don't actually |
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manufacture components. Their products are usually similar with other |
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differently branded products. If you find the OEM then you should be able |
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to |
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source the hsync for it. |
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Alternatively, you could try different LiveCDs for one that successfully |
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guesses these parameters and run xvidtune to see what they are, or look |
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at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You could do well to see if they load any |
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particular |
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modules for your monitor/keyboard/mouse too. |
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If you haven't yet wiped out WinXP you could run msinfo.msc to find out what |
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the monitor reports to the MSWindows kernel. |
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Finally, you could try installing Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, etc. to find one |
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that |
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recognises and configures your hardware before you copy xorg.conf for using |
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it thereafter with Gentoo. |
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> I tried using the ddcxinfo-knoppix |
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> tool, but when I did ddxcinfo-knoppix -hsync, it returned 0 0. When I |
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> did ddxcinfo-knoppix -modelines, it didn't have a matching mode for my |
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> monitor - the default being 1920x1200. I assume that because I don't |
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> have a horizontal and vertical sync in my xorg.conf file that's why the |
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> screen becomes all garbled when startx bombs out. |
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and, or it could be because you need some special driver (not familiar with |
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nvidia I'm afraid). |
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> Xorg.0.log tells me that there is no core keyboard or mouse. I've built |
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> support into the kernel. in /dev/input/ there are choices for mice |
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> mouse0 and mouse1. I've tried using all of these and trying various |
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> drivers, but nothing works. |
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I'm afraid I'm not sure how to help here, but if your mouse/keyboard are not |
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configured properly you may never be able to boot into X. Have you set up |
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something like: |
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INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" |
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in your /etc/make.conf before you emerged Xorg? You may need to also search |
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around for evdev (I think). |
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HTH. |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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