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 4.50) id 1EVJkU-0003h2-1s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:13:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9S2CANx007967; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:12:10 GMT Received: from mail.nucoretech.com (mail.nucoretech.com [12.146.132.130]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9S2C9QG023330 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:12:10 GMT Received: from paris ([192.9.200.83]) by mail.nucoretech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j9S2C678004567 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:12:06 -0700 From: "Bob Young" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg with nvidia driver problems Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:11:55 -0700 Message-ID: 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 In-Reply-To: <43617B15.4000106@comcast.net> Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: 637530c6-196b-4ee3-95b5-d6fccbc1453c X-Archives-Hash: a55cd0eaaea7173b40859e4e456449a3 -----Original Message----- From: sean [mailto:rsh.lists@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:13 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg with nvidia driver problems 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 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 It's a problem between the 2.6.13 kernel's changes to udev and the nvidia kernel module. Thread from another user who experienced the problem. http://www.usenetlinux.com/archive/topic.php/t-495527.html The bug on it posted in Gentoo bugzilla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104369 More info: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml For me, updating the nvidia kernel and glx modules to more recent, though masked as unstable, versions resolved the problem. There are other work arounds and solutions in the above links. HTH, Bob Young -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list