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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi again, |
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> For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in |
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> it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked |
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> one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, |
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> the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and I can see the |
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> services start up as well but when it switches to vt7, it just has a little |
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> blinking cursor at the top. |
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At first glance my guess is that your kernel is configured incorrectly somehow. |
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I have a similar card (Nvidia GT 240). I am using fully ~amd64 system |
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and it all works. FWIW, below are my settings & a couple thoughts too. |
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Right away I think you need to enable the glx module in your |
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xorg.conf. I don't think the monitor and screen sections are necessary |
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at all (it should autodetect everything if you have a modern monitor |
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with EDID support (anything from past 10 years probably has it), and |
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forcing its hsync/vsync could be a cause of problems if they are |
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incorrect). So I'd try removing those. |
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The README that comes with the nvidia-drivers has answers to many of |
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the common error messages, including one of yours: |
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from /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-260.19.21/README.bz2: |
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Q. X crashes during 'startx', and my X log file contains this error message: |
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(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier. |
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A. The NVIDIA OpenGL driver and the NVIDIA X driver require shared memory to |
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communicate; you must have 'CONFIG_SYSVIPC' enabled in your kernel. |
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One thing that I don't know if anyone suggested is to check your |
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framebuffer settings in kernel. I seem to remember that enabling the |
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nvidia framebuffer support in kernel could prevent the drivers from |
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loading. I'm personally using uvesafb from sys-apps/v86d to get a |
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high-res console and it works nicely with the closed nvidia-drivers. |
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here's what I get on my working system: |
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf in its entirety: |
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Section "Module" |
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Load "glx" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Device" |
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Identifier "nVidia GT 240" |
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Driver "nvidia" |
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Option "NoLogo" "1" |
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EndSection |
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"dmesg | grep nvidia" shows me this: |
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[ 9.485269] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. |
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[ 10.118846] nvidia 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 |
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[ 10.118857] nvidia 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 |
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"grep -i nvidia /var/log/Xorg.0.log" shows this: |
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[ 49.453] (**) | |-->Device "nVidia GT 240" |
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[ 50.891] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" |
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[ 50.906] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 260.19.21 Thu Nov 4 21:42:11 PDT 2010 |
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[ 51.008] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" |
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[ 51.008] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so |
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[ 51.126] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" |
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[ 51.205] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 260.19.21 Thu Nov 4 |
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21:18:43 PDT 2010 |
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[ 51.205] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs |
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[ 51.400] (II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in |
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Screen section |
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[ 51.400] (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32 |
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[ 51.400] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 |
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[ 51.400] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor |
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[ 51.400] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) |
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[ 51.400] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo" "1" |
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[ 51.401] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration |
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[ 51.401] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and |
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Composite X extensions is |
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[ 51.401] (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled. |
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[ 52.061] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 240 (GT215) at |
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PCI:3:0:0 (GPU-0) |
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[ 52.061] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 1048576 kBytes |
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[ 52.061] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.15.24.00.00 |
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[ 52.061] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X |
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[ 52.061] (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU |
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[ 52.061] (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce GT |
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240 at PCI:3:0:0 |
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[ 52.061] (--) NVIDIA(0): DELL SP2309W (DFP-0) |
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[ 52.061] (--) NVIDIA(0): DELL SP2309W (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock |
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[ 52.061] (--) NVIDIA(0): DELL SP2309W (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link TMDS |
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[ 52.107] (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0 |
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[ 52.107] (==) NVIDIA(0): |
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[ 52.107] (==) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode |
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"nvidia-auto-select" |
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[ 52.107] (==) NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode. |
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[ 52.107] (==) NVIDIA(0): |
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[ 52.107] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: |
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[ 52.107] (II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select" |
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[ 52.107] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 2048 x 1152 |
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[ 52.138] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (101, 100); computed from |
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"UseEdidDpi" X config |
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[ 52.139] (--) NVIDIA(0): option |
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[ 52.139] (==) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals. |
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[ 52.139] (II) NVIDIA: Using 768.00 MB of virtual memory for |
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indirect memory access. |
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[ 52.140] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART. |
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[ 52.147] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" |
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[ 52.219] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized OpenGL Acceleration |
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[ 52.305] (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps |
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[ 52.305] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized X Rendering Acceleration |
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[ 52.305] (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled |
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[ 52.305] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled |
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[ 52.329] (==) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled |
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[ 52.342] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module "dri2" (module does |
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not exist, 0) |
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[ 52.342] (II) NVIDIA(0): The X server will not be able to send the |
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VDPAU driver name to |
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[ 52.342] (II) NVIDIA(0): libvdpau. |
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(the dri2 error is insignificant as far as I know nvidia-drivers |
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doesn't use it so it is expected) |
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Framebuffer settings from kernel menuconfig: |
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Direct Rendering Manager - enabled as module, no sub-modules enabled |
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Support for frame buffer devices - enabled |
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\--Enable firmware EDID - enabled |
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\--Userspace VESA VGA graphics support - enabled |
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\--VESA VGA graphics support - enabled |
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Console Display Driver Support - Framebuffer console support - enabled |
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Bootup logo enabled so I can see the Tux army when I reboot :) |
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Everything else in this section and subsections is disabled, |
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specifically nothing nvidia-related is enabled. |
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in kernel General setup, initramfs source file(s) is set to |
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/usr/share/v86d/initramfs |
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in grub my boot line contains this video section for a 16:9 uvesafb console: |
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video=uvesafb:1280x720p-59,mtrr:2,ywrap |
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Relevant package versions and USE flags: |
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vanilla-kernel-2.6.36.2 compiled without genkernel, with v86d |
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(uvesafb) in initramfs for high-res console |
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nvidia-drivers-260.19.21 [acpi gtk kernel_linux multilib -custom-cflags] |
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xorg-server-1.9.2.902 [kdrive nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -ipv6 -minimal |
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-static-libs -tslib] |
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v86d-0.1.9 [x86emu -debug] |
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I can send you my kernel .config if you want. Let me know! Good luck :) |
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