Hi again,

For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and I can see the services start up as well but when it switches to vt7, it just has a little blinking cursor at the top.

This is a grep of the log:

r...@smoker / # cat /media/disk/files/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
[ 2081.047] Current Operating System: Linux fireball 2.6.36-gentoo-r4 #15 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 13 01:15:13 CST 2010 x86_64
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[  2081.048] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[  2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
[  2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier: Function not
[  2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     implemented
[ 2082.118] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.120] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
r...@smoker / #

I have tried X -configure, Xorg -configure and nvidia-xconfig and none of them do any better. I also did a emerge -e all the way up to nvidia-driver as well then reconfiged everything. Still no joy. I'm not going to mention all the reinstalls of the nvidia drivers and different versions I tried.

I attached my xorg.conf file too. I can send the whole xorg.log file if needed. Oh, I always get the dri load error. I also used eselect to switch to nvidia's opengl to, many times.

Could it be something weird with the card maybe? This is monitor two that has issues with it.

I have a ATI card handy. If someone knows of a idiot proof guide I could follow. You know, one that you used and are confident it will work if followed. I don't have much hair left right now. :-(

Just for fun, I got a Mandriva install CD and booted it up and even installed it on a spare drive. After the install, it boots just like Gentoo does. I can see the BIOS, the services and such but when it switches to vt7, just a blinking cursor.

This new rig is turning into a nightmare. No wonder I waited almost 8 years. lol

Thoughts?  Ideas?  Suggestions, other than jumping in the creek.

Dale

:-)  :-)
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 260.19.26  
(buildmeis...@swio-display-x86-rhel47-07.nvidia.com)  Mon Nov 29 01:13:31 PST 
2010


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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