On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:49:59PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
>
>> Presumably this all works perfectly with the closed source driver?
>
> I think something got lost in the translation. This is the Nvidia
> closed source driver giving me the problems...
>
> Closed Source != Open Source
> Proprietary != Open Source
> Proprietary == Closed source
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
>
Well then, I guess I must be confused because your initial post in
this thread seemed to me to be about the Open Source driver:
[QUOTE]
I started a thread a while ago about looking for an accelerated video
card. I went and got an ASUS EN210 Silent PCIe card and followed the
instructions at the Gentoo Nouveau wiki. I have not been able to get X
running yet. Trying to launch X with startx blanks the screen, and I
can't get it back. Note that the machine does *NOT* lock up, rather the
video gets disabled until I reboot. I can ssh into the machine. It
appears to be working fine. If I...
* start a root text console in TTY8
* switch to TTY9
* startx
The screen goes blank and I can't get graphics or GUI, no matter what
I do. I can ssh in from another machine and things look OK. As a
matter of fact, I can {CTRL-ALT-F8} and blindly issue the command
"reboot" or "halt -p", and it gets executed. The attached Xorg.log file
shows nothing wrong. "Xorg -configure" does generate an xorg.conf.new
file, but screams about...
====================================================================
(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.
Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.
====================================================================
The Gentoo Nouveau wiki says that message comes either from disabling
DRI (which I didn't do) or from the wrong opengl. I only have the xorg
version. Any ideas? Do the proprietary Nvidia drivers work with kernel
3.2.12? I'm running with mdev instead of udev. Would that make a
difference?
[/QUOTE]
Anyway, I run the closed source driver on 5 machines here. They all
work fine. None of my NVidia cards are 210-based.
Sorry for the noise,
Mark
