Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

[Pupino <pupinux@gmail.com>]

2008/1/31, Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:56:30 +0100
> Pupino <pupinux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > All you have to do in order to get the proprietery nvidia drv
> > > working is:
> > >
> > > 1) make sure the open src nvidia drv is not built in-kernel or as
> > > kernel module:
> > >
> > > ========
> > >    Location:
> > >      -> Device Drivers
> > >        -> Graphics support
> > >          -> Support for frame buffer devices (FB [=n])
> > >              -> nVidia Framebuffer Support = [N]
> > > ========
> > >
> > > 2) emerge nvidia-drivers
> > > 3) make sure /etc/X11/xorg.conf has >Driver "nvidia"<, not "nv" in
> > > section "Device"
> > > 4) eselect opengl set nvidia
> >
> > Thanks for the help Daniel, but what you say hasn't fixed my
> > problem... I had framebuffer support in the kernel config, but not
> > the nvidia fb support, I've tried to remove it at all, but still
> > doesn't work... the other steps you have listed have already been
> > done. In fact if I type /etc/init.d/xdm restart after boot the driver
> > is loaded correctly and all works...
> >
> > Davide
>
>
> No, AFAIK, only the open source "nv" frame buffer (FB) driver can't work
> together with the driver from Nvidia. You can have another (e.g. VESA)
> FB support along with the proprietary driver.
>
> Have you re-emerged "nvidia-drivers" after you recompiled the kernel?
> If you use binary storage for the compiled packages, remove the
> nvidia-drivers from there before emerging. I had such a problem:
> portage extracts the backup package without really rebuilding the
> driver (perhaps because it sees the same versions and USE flags).
>
> So, you could try:
>
> rm $PORTDIR/packages/All/nvidia*
> emerge nvidia-drivers
> eselect opengl nvidia
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniel
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>
>

Yes, i've got the vesa fb driver and not the nv one...
fot the binary storage, I don't use that and however I've tried to
recompile both xorg-server and nvidia-drivers... but without result...
Thanks the same however!

Davide
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