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Thank you. Upon reflection after a remarkable exchange with helpful people |
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on iirc, I opted to start backing out packages. It seems I had left the |
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system in a somewhat convoluted state, notably by emerging nvidia-kernel |
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before xorg-x11, and having installed emacs first of all, which pulled in a |
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possibly partial install of xorg. |
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I actually ran an xorg setup program (xorgconfig) that helped get a credible |
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first off xorg.conf going, this time. Unmerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, |
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and finally as often seems to happen, just when I was about to give it up, I |
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walked back in the room and the gdm screen was staring me in the face! |
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So thanks, I will study your settings. I will have to work out TV out, and |
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reinstall nvidia drivers again, soon. |
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Alan |
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On 10/23/05, Ian Porter <ian@×××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> On Sunday 23 October 2005 02:55, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> > On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card. |
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> > I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the |
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> > Packages (GRP) disk. This has been a no-net install so far. |
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> > |
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> > Trying to configure Xorg, after installing nvidia-kernel driver and |
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> > nvidia-glx. |
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> > Xorg -configure |
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> > then |
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> > X -config /root/xorg.conf.new |
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> > I also did "modprobe nvidia" |
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> > I am receiving the message |
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> > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! |
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> I did not use the Xorg -configure, but these are the first things that I |
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> check to make sure that there is the following lines within |
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> your /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
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> For the nvidia drivers |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "nvidiaCard" |
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> Driver "nvidia" |
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> EndSection |
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> And there should be a link within the screen section to your (mine) |
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> nvidiaCard |
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> Section "Screen" |
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> Identifier "Screen0" |
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> Device "nvidiaCard" |
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> ..... |
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> This is my section for the Module, for the nvidia cards you need to |
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> unselect |
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> the dri module and include the glx. |
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> Section "Module" |
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> Load "freetype" |
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> Load "extmod" |
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> Load "glx" |
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> #Load "dri" |
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> Load "dbe" |
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> Load "record" |
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> Load "xtrap" |
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> Load "type1" |
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> EndSection |
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> If you have these options created then make sure there is the |
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> /etc/modules.d/nvidia |
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> file, mine has |
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> # Nvidia drivers support |
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> alias char-major-195 nvidia |
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> alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195 |
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> within it (if you have to add it do an modules-update) |
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> HTH |
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> Ian |
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> > Then the process aborted. |
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> > I haven't found (yet) any suggestions, except to install a newer version |
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> > the nvidia-kernel. |
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> > I fear I will have to upgrade the whole system now, once I can get |
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> > which may be days away. |
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> > Thanks for any suggestions. |
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> > Alan Davis |
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