On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote:
I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems
somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there
shouldn't be too much of a problem there.
The graphics card as identified by the system is: nVidia Corporation NV36
[GeForce FX 5700LE]
The base system and xorg-x11 seems to be set up alright. However, when I run
startx as a regular
> user I get errors about drm, dri, and dri2 modules and the screen.
Those drm and dri error messages are normal when using the nvidia drivers, but
the screen
error is not normal. What does it say, exactly? Did you generate your
xorg.conf by doing
Xorg -configure? Are you using an xorg.conf file at all?
The nouveau driver is not nearly ready for prime time yet, so I'd stick with
nivida-drivers
at least until you have everything else working.
