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

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote:
> 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
>
> :-)  :-)

Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :)

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Joost