Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

[Dmitri Pogosyan]

What are you talking about ? 8776 is long ago stable on amd64

> > Hi,
> >
> > I got my fonts back by now, even with the beta driver from portage. There are
> > two main problems now:
> >
> > 1: i cant go back to stable nvidia-drivers, because of the font problem
> > 2: when using the beta driver, changing the resolution when running, lets say,
> > a game in fullscreen mode with another resolution than the standard crashes
> > X.
> >
> > cu
> > Dieter
> 
> Using a minute to search on google can really help solve problems.
> 1. Stable nvidia is not compatible with xorg 7.1. This has been discussed 
> at length both here and on nvnews.net
> 2. nvidia 9629 has a horrible _known_ bug that causes the crash.
> 
> You can easily mask it using:
> 
> echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9629 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
> 
> Then emerge the unstable (~amd64) driver in portage. It should be 8776, 
> which works.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] [SOLVED] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

[Dieter Ries]

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Hi,

first things first: its working right now!

Am Sonntag 03 Dezember 2006 00:23 schrieb Dmitri Pogosyan:
> What are you talking about ? 8776 is long ago stable on amd64
>
> >
> > Using a minute to search on google can really help solve problems.
> > 1. Stable nvidia is not compatible with xorg 7.1. This has been discussed
> > at length both here and on nvnews.net
> > 2. nvidia 9629 has a horrible _known_ bug that causes the crash.
> >
> > You can easily mask it using:
> >
> > echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9629 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
> >
> > Then emerge the unstable (~amd64) driver in portage. It should be 8776,
> > which works.

As Dmitri wrote, that is no longer necessary, because this version is stable 
on AMD64.

The problem I encountered was, that when I tried to start X with 8776, I got 
the following error message:

API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0.9629 but this X 
module has the version 1.0-8776. Please make sure that the kernel module and 
all NVIDIA driver components have the same Version.

And this even occurred after emerge -C nvidia-drivers etc. Now I got it back 
working with uninstalling the NVIDIA.<bla>.run package manually, and then 
unmerging nvidia-drivers, and remerging nvidia-drivers. So it seems that this 
BETA driver from NVIDIA behaves different from the former versions. 

But that doesn't matter anymore, thank you all for you help,

cu
Dieter

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] [SOLVED] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

[Michael Weyershäuser]

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Dieter Ries wrote:
> 
> The problem I encountered was, that when I tried to start X with 8776, I got 
> the following error message:
> 
> API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0.9629 but this X 
> module has the version 1.0-8776. Please make sure that the kernel module and 
> all NVIDIA driver components have the same Version.
> 
> And this even occurred after emerge -C nvidia-drivers etc. Now I got it back 
> working with uninstalling the NVIDIA.<bla>.run package manually, and then 
> unmerging nvidia-drivers, and remerging nvidia-drivers. So it seems that this 
> BETA driver from NVIDIA behaves different from the former versions. 

Did you unload the nvidia kernel module after uninstalling the 9629
drivers? This one stays loaded until you either reboot or do a "rmmod
nvidia".

The morale of the story: If you have an error message and want help,
post the exact error message, not some summary what you think it says ;)


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] [SOLVED] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

[Dieter Ries]

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Am Sonntag 03 Dezember 2006 16:48 schrieb Michael Weyershäuser:
> Dieter Ries wrote:
> > The problem I encountered was, that when I tried to start X with 8776, I
> > got the following error message:
> >
> > API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0.9629 but this
> > X module has the version 1.0-8776. Please make sure that the kernel
> > module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same Version.
> >
> > And this even occurred after emerge -C nvidia-drivers etc. Now I got it
> > back working with uninstalling the NVIDIA.<bla>.run package manually, and
> > then unmerging nvidia-drivers, and remerging nvidia-drivers. So it seems
> > that this BETA driver from NVIDIA behaves different from the former
> > versions.
>
> Did you unload the nvidia kernel module after uninstalling the 9629
> drivers? This one stays loaded until you either reboot or do a "rmmod
> nvidia".

yes I did, no effect

>
> The morale of the story: If you have an error message and want help,
> post the exact error message, not some summary what you think it says ;)

this is quite complicated if you have the error messages in the console and 
your browser, nearly without fonts in X. But now its working again, and so 
theres no problem. Thank you anyway,

cu
Dieter

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