* Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg with nvidia driver problems
@ 2005-10-28 4:00 Dmitri Pogosyan
2005-10-28 17:42 ` [gentoo-amd64] Xorg with nvidia driver problems (CURED) sean
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From: Dmitri Pogosyan @ 2005-10-28 4:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-amd64
Trust me this time :)
You don't have nvidia devices
/dev/nvidia0
/dev/nvidiactl
unofrtunately they are not created automatically withthe new kernel
(although some reports vary), and you have to do it manually.
There is a lot of discussion on that in gentoo forums.
Some nvidia-kernel packages contain /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh
script to run, if not you can do it by hand
cd /dev
mknod nvidia0 c 195 0
mknod nvidiactl 195 255
and then set ownership to root:video nad permissions to 666 or 660
Unfortunately, you will loose them on reboot unless you run udev with
RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"
if so you can create like /etc/init.d/nvidia and put it in boot level.
> I followed the instructions to get the nvidia driver working on my
> system here, but obviously since I am writing, it is giving me problems.
> Information below, and thanks in advance for the help.
> Sean
>
> Here is the error when I try to start with the 'nvidia' driver.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> The module appears to be loaded as shown below.
> tardis sean # /sbin/lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> nvidia 4054396 0
> snd_intel8x0 33856 2
> snd_ac97_codec 90712 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_seq 55776 1
> snd_seq_device 8972 0
> snd_pcm_oss 52128 0
> snd_pcm 89608 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 23816 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 11728 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> snd_mixer_oss 18176 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd 52552 13
>
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
> soundcore 10144 1 snd
> s2io 39692 0
> tardis sean #
>
> tardis sean # modinfo nvidia
> license: NVIDIA
> alias: char-major-195-*
> parmtype: silence_nvidia_output:int
> parmtype: NVreg_RmLogonRC:int
> parmtype: NVreg_VideoEnhancement:int
> parmtype: NVreg_DevicesConnected:int
> parmtype: NVreg_FlatPanelMode:int
> parmtype: NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel:int
> parmtype: NVreg_Mobile:int
> parmtype: NVreg_SoftEDIDs:int
> parmtype: NVreg_EnableAGPFW:int
> parmtype: NVreg_EnableAGPSBA:int
> parmtype: NVreg_NvAGP:int
> parmtype: NVreg_ReqAGPRate:int
> parmtype: NVreg_EnableALiAGP:int
> parmtype: NVreg_EnableVia4x:int
> parmtype: NVreg_VideoMemoryTypeOverride:int
> alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00*
> depends:
> vermagic: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 SMP gcc-3.4
>
> tardis sean # uname -a
> Linux tardis 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 #4 SMP Thu Oct 27 14:26:00 EDT 2005 x86_64
> AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>
> xorg config
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "X.org Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/lib64/X11/rgb"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "dri"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "record"
> Load "xtrap"
> Load "glx"
> Load "type1"
> Load "freetype"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
> Option "Zaxismapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> ### Available Driver options are:-
> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> ### [arg]: arg optional
> #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
> #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
> #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
> #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
> #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
> #Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
> #Option "VideoKey" # <i>
> #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
> #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
> #Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
> #Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
> #Option "FPTweak" # <i>
> Identifier "Card 0"
> # Driver "nvidia"
> Driver "nv"
> VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
> BoardName "Unknown Board"
> BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
> VideoRam 256000
> Option "NvAGP" "1" # use nvidias agp - 1 , agpgart -2,
> agpgart,nvagp -3
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> # DefaultDepth 16
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> # Depth 16
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> --
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