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 1FrpWt-00052d-GN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:08:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5I56UMC011017; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:06:30 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5I4xfIX027675 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:59:41 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFC5648B1 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06573-08 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBD06491D for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FrpNc-00016Q-4q for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:59:24 +0200 Received: from adsl-68-79-63-43.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.79.63.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:59:24 +0200 Received: from reader by adsl-68-79-63-43.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:59:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx <=Normal? Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:58:44 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87u06jrrej.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87wtbga1tn.fsf@newsguy.com> <5c751a230606170118o33f5ac2co471e7e8771b61638@mail.gmail.com> <87hd2k80ts.fsf@newsguy.com> <20060617132509.5eeaee5e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-79-63-43.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QROm2RzBJptquDSpUBAuQZe1PhM= Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.569 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.008, BAYES_00=-2.599, NO_REAL_NAME=0.961, TW_GL=0.077] X-Spam-Score: -1.569 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 7812d47d-ac51-4df0-98ba-dffb9921ac96 X-Archives-Hash: 6a45b6d2e28ea58244de3ff3f0606ff9 Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:43:11 -0500, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > >> Pavel appears to be suggesting that I un-emerge the current >> xorg-server. Then install the nvidia stuff and then using his >> package.mask, reinstall xorg-server. > > All you need to do is add the relevant lines to package.mask and do > "emerge --update world". This will downgrade xorg to the latest unmasked > version. Then you can stop X, emerge the nvidia drivers and restart X. Apparently that is not `All'. After adding the mask stuff that Hermman posted a link to. Things were emerged successfully. I now have the downgraded version of xorg-server. I've emerged nvidia-kenel and nvidia-glx. I ran eselect opengl set nvidia. No error output anywhere so far. I did xorgconfig and tried to start X off of that. But it fails with errors that indicate something more wrong than just which driver to load. But before showing them I also tried to modprobe nvidia just to make sure it was present... I get errors there too: root # modprobe nvidia FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r9/video/nvidia.ko): Invalid module format Before going into the whole xorg log file, I'll just post the errors from running startx... They appear to indicate that having had the newer xorg-server I still have some stuff left from it or something similar: (EE) module ABI minor version (6) is newer than the server's version (5) (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module requirement mismatch, 0) (EE) module ABI minor version (6) is newer than the server's version (5) (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module requirement mismatch, 0) (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try (EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r9/video/nvidia.ko): Invalid module format (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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list