From: "mike" <vapier@netzero.com>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] NVIDIA drivers
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:53:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05a701c24965$9b343650$0200a8c0@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.44.0208211817550.1288-100000@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3646
-mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Denis Shcherbakov" <deniss@Princeton.EDU>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 18:33
Subject: [gentoo-dev] NVIDIA drivers
>
> Hello...
>
> I have just installed Gentoo and also installed and compiled X and KDE. I
> have a GeForce3 Nvidia chip in my graphics card (64-MB Asus V8200), and so
> I thought I'd use the new drivers.
>
> So I followed the instructions to install those, using Code Listings 8
> thru 10 in the Desktop Guide, and after I made those modifications, I
> started X, only to see
>
> NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module
>
> As a result, X did not find any usable screens and died with a fatal
> error.
>
> After looking in /var/log/messages, I saw the following message
> corresponding to an attempt to load NVdriver module into the kernel:
>
> nvidia: couldn't map registers!
>
> Before I made the modifications to use new Nvidia drivers, X started and
> ran just fine from startx. It gave no errors.
>
> Let me give you some detail about my system. I've a dual-processor
> machine with 2.2GHz Xeons sitting on Tyan 2603 motherboard (Thunder i860
> chipset), with 2GB Rambus RDRAM. I compiled the kernel for it
> successfully, and there are no errors at boot. The graphics card has a
> GeForce3 chip with 64MB of video RAM. I have a Sony flat 21'' monitor,
> CPD-G520. Like I said, my X worked ok before i messed with Nvidia
> drivers.
>
> I saw an instruction document for Nvidia on www.gentoo.org, but it was
> only in French!! DOH. I could really use some help about this. This
> seems like a very common error, and a LOT of people are reporting this
> same thing, and yet there seems to be no solution that I could find.
>
> Please advise. Please let me know what other info you might need.
>
> Best,
> Denis
>
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2002-08-21 22:33 [gentoo-dev] NVIDIA drivers Denis Shcherbakov
2002-08-21 22:53 ` mike [this message]
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