From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dxc4H-0004M0-N5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:54:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6R2q6BI023400; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:52:06 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6R2q55Q006015 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:52:05 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 67so85620wri for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:52:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ix2oCv4SoiWPVOvFwWyMIA4pBHke4w3btgXhzKRqQVZANAIYSqTw3SPCa62OhFoEVdr+y5tUkZNoSQ0JS3tqHuTlPkZCDZXMI4ClGahB1Pjxh8abC9WFvz2fOZHxgAVNrCLdoJo7OpJimzmIZ3bD3EBz8pOaG9WiuvdaVPtS+Uk= Received: by 10.54.83.5 with SMTP id g5mr169342wrb; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.130.17 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1f81f7e00507261952590c230b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:52:18 -0400 From: Mark To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Nvidia problem In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1f81f7e005072619284cb7e1f1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6R2q55Q006015 X-Archives-Salt: 1a1db1ce-aea8-4021-be62-f1076937ffc7 X-Archives-Hash: 6cfd34057350febc036d198d193b76ca Thanks Sebastian, but I don't have that enabled. In fact, it looks like I don't have any framebuffer support enabled at all. I was wondering, could it be that the current driver has probelms and maybe I should try an older version? If that's a possibility, how do I install an older driver? On 7/26/05, Sebastian Zaffarano wrote: > try disabling the nvidia-fb option in the kernel. I had the same > problem, and I think it's because there's any conflict betwen frame > buffer and nvidia drivers :( > > any ideas? > > I was the problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6 and > morph-sources-2.6.12-r6 and the solution was disable nvidia-fb > > Sebastian > > On 7/26/05, Mark wrote: > > I think I've done my due diligence on this prior to asking, and have > > found several posting in the forums on the issue, but the suggestions > > haven't worked so far. > > > > After emerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, which completes without > > error, I try modprobe nvidia. It fails with the following: > > > > FATAL: Error inserting nvidia > > (/lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r6/video/nvidia.ko): No such device > > > > I've tried all the suggestions I could find, including checking for > > framebuffer settings in the kernel, making sure my processor is > > specified correctly in the kernel, etc. I even tried the unstable > > driver version by putting the lines in package.keywords. > > > > Any idea what could be wrong? > > Thanks! > > -- > > Mark > > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] > > > > -- > > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list