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On 01/05/2011 06:41 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote: |
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>> On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: |
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>>> I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there shouldn't be too much of a problem there. |
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>>> The graphics card as identified by the system is: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] |
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>>> The base system and xorg-x11 seems to be set up alright. However, when I run startx as a regular |
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>>> user I get errors about drm, dri, and dri2 modules and the screen. |
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>> Those drm and dri error messages are normal when using the nvidia drivers, but the screen |
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>> error is not normal. What does it say, exactly? Did you generate your xorg.conf by doing |
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>> Xorg -configure? Are you using an xorg.conf file at all? |
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>> The nouveau driver is not nearly ready for prime time yet, so I'd stick with nivida-drivers |
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>> at least until you have everything else working. |
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> I am not using the xorg.conf file |
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That's fine for starters. You may need to add one later if your mouse or keyboard don't work. |
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(BTW, you need to emerge the xf86-input-evdev driver for the mouse and keyboard if you don't |
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have an xorg.conf). |
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> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Jan 5 09:03:31 2011 |
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> List of video drivers: |
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> nouveau |
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> nvidia |
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> FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/video/nvidia.ko): No such device |
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That's definitely a problem. The "no such device" is a bit ambiguous. I'm thinking maybe |
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the nouveau and nvidia drivers are fighting with each other, so neither one can get full |
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control of the video hardware. |
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IIRC, if you build the nouveau driver into your kernel, it *will* conflict with the nvidia |
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kernel module. I keep two different kernel config files, one with nouveau, and the other |
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without nouveau for use with the nvidia.ko module. |
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Definitely build a kernel without nouveau at least until you get everything else working -- |
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and then *re*emerge nividia-drivers after you boot the new kernel. (Compiling/installing |
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a new kernel will delete all of your existing kernel modules including nvidia.ko!) |
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