I thought I would give an update. I uninstalled the nvidia driver I
downloaded from Nvidia's website. When I uninstalled the driver with
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.14-pkg1.run --uninstall it gave me a message
that it had changed since installation and that it would try to
uninstall it; don't know what changed it. Uninstalling didn't change
anything, so it must have failed to remove it properly. I think I will
be relunctant to install a driver from Nvidia's site again.
I decided to reinstall Squeeze. After I ran Xorg -configure and got a
configuration file to see what driver and other settings it was using.
When I moved that config file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf I couldn't get a
screen. I would give an error of: no screens found. Why would a config
file that Xorg generated not work? How would I tell which driver I am
using and tell Xorg which one to use?
Thanks for the help
I posted the xorg.conf below if someone wants to look at it.
Thanks
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 400 250 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "HWP"
ModelName "HP w19e"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
#Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPTweak" # <i>
#Option "DualHead" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
On March 29, 2011 10:54:15 pm Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:13:33 -0600
>
> Mark Carlson <carlsonm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Joe S <joes...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > (EE) Failed to load /user/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
> > > (EE) Failed to load module nvidia (loader failed, 7)
> > > (++) Using config file: /root/xorg.conf.new
> > > (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
> > > (EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
> >
> > Actually, having this line commented out may be preventing the
> > nvidia driver from being loaded.
> >
> > > #Load "dri"
> >
> > Notice the error message:
> >
> > (EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
> >
> > This may be causing the nvidia_drv.so loader to fail.
> >
> > -Mark C.
> >
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> Actually, that line needs to be commented out for the proprietary
> nvidia driver along with Load Glcore. The nv driver doesn't have 3d
> acceleration so it probably doesn't need it either but i'm not sure
> if having it in xorg.conf makes any difference. What i can see it
> that the system is still trying to load the nvidia driver, ignoring
> the nv in xorg.conf. It should be uninstalled considering the card is
> too old to be supported by it anyways. The latest xorg versions can
> work without a xorg.conf so I would mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.old,
> remove the nvidia driver and see what happens. I'm betting the nv
> driver will be loaded without a problem as long as that proprietary
> blob is gone. this gives good reason why it should be installed via
> the debian method instead of the .run package. .debs are much easier
> to uninstall if you have to.
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