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From: renna bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 1:01 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module
hi to all. i am finalizing a fresh new gentoo installation. i'm having some
problems with xorg and my nvidia geforce mx 440 card. i followed the
instructions on the dedicated part of documentation on gentoo.org, and even
tried the following commands as proposed by gentoo-wiki.com but i allways
get
the same error
#emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx nvidia-settings
#opengl-update nvidia
#modprobe nvidia
#X -configure
#X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
but i allways get this (from /var/log/Xorg.0.log)
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 8, (==) framebuffer bpp 8
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is PseudoColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF0000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xEE000000
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
information.
portage installed me diffferent versions of nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel
(1.0.6629-r6 and 1.0.6629-r4) should i install the same version? are there
newer versions available, or are these known not to work? right now i'm
using
the nv driver, and i have everything i need (kde) working, though i'd like
to
set up my nvidia card to its full capabilities
thanks
I'm ran into the exact same problem on a newly installed dual Opteron system
yesterday. Basically it's a broken nvidia ebuild. There was a thread on this
forum about this exact issue a couple of weeks ago. The "solution" is to
emerge the masked versions of the nvidia-kernel. To see what versions are
available you can:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -sv nvidia
Then umask the specific version of the packages you want to use:
#echo '=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 ~x86'
>>/etc/portage/package.keywords
#echo '=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 ~x86'
>>/etc/portage/package.keywords
Assuming your running x86 of course, otherwise replace "~x86" with the
appropiate value for your arch.
HTH,
Bob Young
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