Daevid Vincent wrote:
I emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05.
Now when I start X, I have a blank/black screen.
This driver is NOT working with my card.
Okay I followed the Wiki as instructed to the letter. Same EXACT problem. It
all seems to go fine, but I get a black screen when X starts. Not like a
back-lit one either. Like "power off" black. I know X is running, I can see
the processes, and it doesn't seem locked up either. I just can't see
anything.
May help to post those as well. even the commands like "cat
/var/log/kdm.log | grep EE" and "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
grep EE" may provide some info.
I don't run KDM or any other manager like that.
locutus ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Current Operating System: Linux locutus.daevid.com 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 #3
PREEMPT Tue Mar 4 18:28:41 PST 2008 i686
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Shows no errors that I see right?
Also, try lsmod to see if the module is even loading at all. I know
sometimes my nvidia does not load when I update the kernel.
locutus ~ # lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia 4717848 0
Thanks for the ideas, I think it's just this P.O.S. card and the fact that
nVidia is screwing me by not supporting it anymore in these later drivers.
Not sure why Willie's works though. That is curious, hopeful and frustrating
at the same time.
I have a older card too, FX-5200 I think it is, and it seems to work
fine. I use nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 and it works fine but maybe mine
is new enough to still be supported. Looks like it would stay in the
tree if it is the only driver that supports older cards. Sort of confused.
I have read about this before either on this list or on the forums. You
searched the archives yet? I'm clueless. I never had trouble with
nvidia drivers like this.
Dale
:-) :-)
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