!! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

[Dale]

J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote:
>
>> Pintér Tibor wrote:
>>
>>> how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone
>>> wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)
>>>
>> That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post.  Here
>> is the results of the latest test.  I shut down the rig and unplugged
>> the rig and monitor.  Glad to see the monitor switched back to English
>> too.  It was Chinese or something.  Anyway.  Before the shutdown, I
>> rebuilt the kernel, re-emerged the nvidia drivers and did a manual
>> switch on opengl to nvidia.  I let the rig sit there unplugged for about
>> 30 minutes.  I then booted it up.  BIOS came up, I saw the services
>> scroll up then it switched to vt7 and gave me a blinking cursor.  It
>> just sat there.
>>
>> I'm attaching both the new just tried xorg.conf and the xorg.log file.
>> No grep or anything this time.
>>
>> Let me know if you see anything fishy or that needs changing.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
> Ok,
>
> check your kernel config.
>
> The following error into google gave me a hint,
> [  2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier:
> Function not
> [  2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     implemented
>
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118109
>
> This one says:
> Try enabling CONFIG_SYSVIPC.
>
> --
> Joost
>
>

You da man !!!  That was it.  Yeppie !!!  I got my nice new monitor 
back.  I bet this was what was wrong with the other monitor too.  I'm 
happy so I'm not going to try it.

Whew.  I was about ready to try the ATI card too.  Yuck !!  lol

THANKS MUCH !!

Dale

:-)  :-)