Thank you. Upon reflection after a remarkable exchange with helpful people
on iirc, I opted to start backing out packages. It seems I had left the
system in a somewhat convoluted state, notably by emerging nvidia-kernel
before xorg-x11, and having installed emacs first of all, which pulled in a
possibly partial install of xorg.

I actually ran an xorg setup program (xorgconfig) that helped get a credible
first off xorg.conf going, this time. Unmerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx,
and finally as often seems to happen, just when I was about to give it up, I
walked back in the room and the gdm screen was staring me in the face!

So thanks, I will study your settings. I will have to work out TV out, and
reinstall nvidia drivers again, soon.

Alan

On 10/23/05, Ian Porter <ian@designersoft.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi
> On Sunday 23 October 2005 02:55, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card.
> >
> > I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the
> > Packages (GRP) disk. This has been a no-net install so far.
> >
> > Trying to configure Xorg, after installing nvidia-kernel driver and
> > nvidia-glx.
> > Xorg -configure
> > then
> > X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
> >
> > I also did "modprobe nvidia"
> >
> > I am receiving the message
> >
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
>
> I did not use the Xorg -configure, but these are the first things that I
> check to make sure that there is the following lines within
> your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> For the nvidia drivers
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "nvidiaCard"
> Driver "nvidia"
> EndSection
>
> And there should be a link within the screen section to your (mine)
> nvidiaCard
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "nvidiaCard"
> .....
>
> This is my section for the Module, for the nvidia cards you need to
> unselect
> the dri module and include the glx.
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "glx"
> #Load "dri"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "record"
> Load "xtrap"
> Load "type1"
> EndSection
>
> If you have these options created then make sure there is the
> /etc/modules.d/nvidia
> file, mine has
>
> # Nvidia drivers support
> alias char-major-195 nvidia
> alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195
>
> within it (if you have to add it do an modules-update)
>
> HTH
> Ian
> >
> > Then the process aborted.
> >
> > I haven't found (yet) any suggestions, except to install a newer version
> of
> > the nvidia-kernel.
> >
> > I fear I will have to upgrade the whole system now, once I can get
> online,
> > which may be days away.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > Alan Davis
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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