Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module

[Qian Qiao]

On 10/27/05, Bob Young <BYoung@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: renna bud [mailto:rennabh@×××××.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 1:01 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module
>
> hi to all. i am finalizing a fresh new gentoo installation. i'm having some
> problems with xorg and my nvidia geforce mx 440 card. i followed the
> instructions on the dedicated part of documentation on gentoo.org, and even
> tried the following commands as proposed by gentoo-wiki.com but i allways
> get
> the same error
>
> #emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx nvidia-settings
> #opengl-update nvidia
> #modprobe nvidia
> #X -configure
> #X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
>
> but i allways get this (from /var/log/Xorg.0.log)
>
>
> (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 8, (==) framebuffer bpp 8
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is PseudoColor
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF0000000
> (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xEE000000
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>         at http://wiki.X.Org
>  for help.
> Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
> information.
>
>
> portage installed me diffferent versions of nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel
> (1.0.6629-r6 and 1.0.6629-r4) should i install the same version? are there
> newer versions available, or are these known not to work? right now i'm
> using
> the nv driver, and i have everything i need (kde) working, though i'd like
> to
> set up my nvidia card to its full capabilities
> thanks
> I'm ran into the exact same problem on a newly installed dual Opteron system
> yesterday. Basically it's a broken nvidia ebuild. There was a thread on this
> forum about this exact issue a couple of weeks ago. The "solution" is to
> emerge the masked versions of the nvidia-kernel. To see what versions are
> available you can:
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"  emerge -sv nvidia
> Then umask the specific version of the packages you want to use:
> #echo '=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 ~x86'
> >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
> #echo '=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 ~x86'
> >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> Assuming your running x86 of course, otherwise replace "~x86" with the
> appropiate value for your arch.
> HTH,
> Bob Young

Hmmm, I'm running nvidia-kernel 6629-r4 and nvidia-glx 6629-r6 on a
amd64 system without any problems.

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