Re: [gentoo-user] Newcomer: Nvidia from GRP and MX4000

[Alan E. Davis]

Thank you.  Upon reflection after a remarkable exchange with helpful people on iirc, I opted to start backing out packages.  It seems I had left the system in a somewhat convoluted state, notably by emerging nvidia-kernel before xorg-x11,  and having installed emacs first of all, which pulled in a possibly partial install of xorg. 

I actually ran an xorg setup program (xorgconfig) that helped get a credible  first off xorg.conf going, this time.  Unmerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, and finally as often seems to happen, just when I was about to give it up, I walked back in the room and the gdm screen was staring me in the face!

So thanks, I will study your settings.  I will have to work out TV out, and reinstall nvidia drivers again, soon.

Alan

On 10/23/05, Ian Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi
On Sunday 23 October 2005 02:55, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card.
>
> I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the
> Packages (GRP) disk. This has been a no-net install so far.
>
> Trying to configure Xorg, after installing nvidia-kernel driver and
> nvidia-glx.
> Xorg -configure
> then
> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
>
> I also did "modprobe nvidia"
>
> I am receiving the message
>
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!

I did not use the Xorg -configure, but these are the first things that I
check to make sure that there is the following lines within
your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

For the nvidia drivers
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "nvidiaCard"
        Driver      "nvidia"
EndSection

And there should be a link within the screen section to your (mine) nvidiaCard
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "nvidiaCard"
.....

This is my section for the Module, for the nvidia cards you need to unselect
the dri module and include the glx.

Section "Module"
        Load "freetype"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        #Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

If you have these options created then make sure there is the
/etc/modules.d/nvidia
file, mine has

# Nvidia drivers support
alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195

within it (if you have to add it do an modules-update)

HTH
Ian
>
> Then the process aborted.
>
> I haven't found (yet) any suggestions, except to install a newer version of
> the nvidia-kernel.
>
> I fear I will have to upgrade the whole system now, once I can get online,
> which may be days away.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Alan Davis
>
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