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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:49:59PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote |
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>> Presumably this all works perfectly with the closed source driver? |
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> I think something got lost in the translation. This is the Nvidia |
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> closed source driver giving me the problems... |
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> Closed Source != Open Source |
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> Proprietary != Open Source |
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> Proprietary == Closed source |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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Well then, I guess I must be confused because your initial post in |
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this thread seemed to me to be about the Open Source driver: |
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I started a thread a while ago about looking for an accelerated video |
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card. I went and got an ASUS EN210 Silent PCIe card and followed the |
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instructions at the Gentoo Nouveau wiki. I have not been able to get X |
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running yet. Trying to launch X with startx blanks the screen, and I |
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can't get it back. Note that the machine does *NOT* lock up, rather the |
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video gets disabled until I reboot. I can ssh into the machine. It |
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appears to be working fine. If I... |
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* start a root text console in TTY8 |
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* switch to TTY9 |
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* startx |
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The screen goes blank and I can't get graphics or GUI, no matter what |
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I do. I can ssh in from another machine and things look OK. As a |
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matter of fact, I can {CTRL-ALT-F8} and blindly issue the command |
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"reboot" or "halt -p", and it gets executed. The attached Xorg.log file |
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shows nothing wrong. "Xorg -configure" does generate an xorg.conf.new |
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file, but screams about... |
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(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol |
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Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. |
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Configuration failed. |
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Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file. |
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The Gentoo Nouveau wiki says that message comes either from disabling |
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DRI (which I didn't do) or from the wrong opengl. I only have the xorg |
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version. Any ideas? Do the proprietary Nvidia drivers work with kernel |
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3.2.12? I'm running with mdev instead of udev. Would that make a |
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difference? |
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Anyway, I run the closed source driver on 5 machines here. They all |
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work fine. None of my NVidia cards are 210-based. |
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Sorry for the noise, |
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Mark |
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