[gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

[gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

[Jeff Cranmer]

Hi,

I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line.

Looking at Xorg.0.log, I have the following warnings and errors

Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (no such file or directory)
No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select" will be used as the requested mode.
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing

Any assistance gratefully received.

Jeff


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Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

[Philip Webb]

061016 Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
> I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
> Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
> The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line.

I've had no problem with Xorg-x11 7.1 + Nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774 .
I'm using Kernel 2.6.18 , so the 1st thing to try is a kernel update.
Make sure you check the ACPI section when configuring it
& recompile the Nvidia drivers for the new kernel.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 01:42, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
> I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
> Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
> The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command
> line.
>
> Looking at Xorg.0.log, I have the following warnings and errors
>
> Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (no such file or directory)
> No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select" will be used
> as the requested mode. Could not init font path element
> /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list! FreeFontPath: FPE
> "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing
>

complete Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf would be helpfull. The FontPath errors and 
the Acpi error aren't fatal.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Help! Xorg broken!

[Sven Köhler]

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> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
> I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
> Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
> The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line.

Can you tell us, which nvidia related ebuild you have installed?



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Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

[Neil Hodges]

Hello,

The error regarding the "/var/run/acpid.socket" means that you don't
have acpid installed, nor running. I don't know if the fault has
something to do with that.

It may be a good idea to emerge sys-power/acpid and add it to your
default runlevel: rc-update add acpid default

Also, add Option "UseEDID" "false" to your xorg.conf under the nVidia
Device section.  It fixes a lot of issues.

- Neil
On 19:42 Mon 16 Oct     , Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
> I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
> Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
> The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line.
> 
> Looking at Xorg.0.log, I have the following warnings and errors
> 
> Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (no such file or directory)
> No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select" will be used as the requested mode.
> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing
> 
> Any assistance gratefully received.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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