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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FxTiV-0006GF-GX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:04:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k63IuCm0006854; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:56:12 GMT Received: from mxo4.broadbandsupport.net (mxo4.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k63IQPjp028150 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:26:25 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (unknown [207.68.230.60]) by mxo4.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0D6BC88B8 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:26:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44A96141.1010404@vista-express.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:26:09 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060629 SeaMonkey/1.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5 References: <44A95661.9080900@anderedomain.de> In-Reply-To: <44A95661.9080900@anderedomain.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: fdfe88e0-c6b3-4a47-9e96-28e2cbe34aaa X-Archives-Hash: 3a9514084289c4e7bfcca8d184a0bac5 Philipp Riegger wrote: > Hi! > > Unfortunately i am forced to use nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5 because my > graphic card is not supported by newer versions of the driver. I also > use kernel 2.6.11 because of that. > > But now xorg does not seem to work with that driver: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > What can i do? I also tried to get it to work with nv instead of nvidia, > but that does not work, too. I get some warnings but no errors. > > Philipp > Try lsmod and see if it is loaded. I have been known to rmmod nvidia then modprobe nvidia just to make sure everything goes without a error. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list