Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

[Philipp Riegger]

On Jul 3, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote:

> See attached. It may help.
>
> DÆVID
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Philipp Riegger [mailto:lists@××××××××××××.de]
>> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:40 AM
>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>> Subject: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with
>> nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Unfortunately i am forced to use nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5 because my
>> graphic card is not supported by newer versions of the driver. I also
>> use kernel 2.6.11 because of that.
>>
>> But now xorg does not seem to work with that driver:
>>
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
>> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> no screens found
>>
>> What can i do? I also tried to get it to work with nv instead
>> of nvidia,
>> but that does not work, too. I get some warnings but no errors.
>>
>> Philipp
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>>
>>
>
> From: "Daevid Vincent" <daevid@××××××.com>
> Date: May 23, 2006 4:29:42 AM GMT+02:00
> To: <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia
> GeForce4 440 Go [SOLVED]
> Reply-To: <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
>
>
> I finally got this working it seems.
>
> These links were very helpful:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90047
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-327623.html
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=49718&highlight=glx
> +xorg+ge
> ntoo
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/search.php?searchid=464072
>
> I can't recall the exact thing that solved it, but I suspect it was
> the
> nvidia/tls thing in the first post. I un/merged, un/masked, rm -rf
> so many
> things I can't remember anymore. But at the end of the day, I do
> have the
> latest nvidia drivers working in OpenGL glory on my Dell i8200
> notebook
> GeForce 440 card.
>
> Glxgears gives me:
> 7630 frames in 5 seconds = 1526 FPS +/-
>
> Now if only I could figure out a way to get the video card to not
> share an
> IRQ with SEVEN other things including my eth0, wlan and usb amongst
> other
> things -- then it wouldn't studder. *sigh*.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@××××××.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:58 PM
> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with
> > nVidia GeForce4 440 Go
> >
> > > This should not be needed.  The X server (actually, the
> > nvidia module
> > > loaded in the X server) should create these automatically if
> they do
> > > not exist.  From an strace of X on my system after removing the
> > > nvidiactl and nvidia0 device nodes:
> >
> > Okay. I removed them. Thanks.
> >
> > > > So what is causing X7 to crash is when I set:
> > > > "eselect opengl set nvidia"
> > >
> > > If you comment out the line:
> > >
> > > Load "glx"
> > >
> > > in xorg.conf, do you still get the crash?
> >
> > No. X starts now. But "glxgears" segfaults.
> >
> > > How are you starting the X server?  Does it still crash if
> > > you run just "X :0"?
> >
> > I type "startx".
> >
> > X :0 just gives me (as you probably already know) a
> > "checker-board" backdrop
> > and a cursor. Can't do anything else with it.
> >
> > > Take the most recent version of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx
> > > (~x86) and
> > > take a look at /etc/modules.d/nvidia. There something about a
> > > module-option for notebook systems.
> >
> > Tried various ways with and without this option enabled.
> > However, it says that's to solve "hard lock ups". I don't
> > have that problem.
> > X starts, then just dies (if I have the wrong combination of
> > eselect/glx).
> > It's definitely related to OpenGL now...
> >
> > Tried rebooting after a few different option/tweaks just to
> > be sure too.
> >
> >
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