newbie: nvidia drivers and xorg

yayaba · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 22

I've done some searching on the board but am still a little unsure of things.

I just finished installing Gentoo 2004.1 Kernel-2.6.7-r11 and did the emerge of xorg. It worked perfectly with the default nv drivers and I read about using the accelerated nvidia drivers.

Here's where I'm not sure. I emerged the nvidia-kernel drivers but are the nvidia-glx drivers important? It seems that to use the glx drivers that I would have to install xfree which I'd rather not do.

Xorg can't seem to find my nvidia module either. The only module that the kernel package seemed to install was "nvidia.ko" but when I try to modprobe that I get an error saying that it's an invalid module format. Plus my xorg has no idea where this nvidia module is as there's nothing in my X11R6 module directory relating to it.

Thanks in advance for the help and sorry if these Q's have been asked dozens of times already :oops:

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tomek32 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 139

First, make sure you emerged nvidia-kernel after installing the latest kernel. Second, I don't really know how nvidia-glx works with nvidia-kernel, but I've always assumes they're both need. So I do.

I have the nvidia-drivers working with the 2.6.7 kernel, but I need the latest unstable ones. I'm using the unstable ones for nvidia-glx also just in case it matters, but I have no idea.

yayaba · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 22

Hrm, I'd really rather not install xfree because it seems kind of redundant having both xorg and xfree in there (glx basically requires I have xfree in there).

From what I read glx is for OpenGL but heck, I just want the regular drivers. Maybe that'll fix my resolution problems.

Edit: Well, I broke down and just tried installing the glx drivers too but now I have some errors:

tomek32 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 139

I know glx is for OpenGL, I'm just not sure if it's strictly for compiling opengl apps or if there's also some runtime dependency for app that use it.

I've always thought it had something to do with the following, but again I'm not sure.

archsvile · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 164 Location: PA

first get the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel then pm me and i can help u set up xorg
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Moled · l33t Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 635

change your profile to "default-x86-2004.2"

this updates the virtuals to xorg-x11 etc so it will not try to install xfree
ie, update the /etc/make.profile symlink to point at /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-2004.2

skywarp · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 41 Location: Germany

Hello,

the problem with "invalid module format" is wellknown. The forum's full of it. For 2.6.7 you should use the most recent 6106 version of the nvidia drivers.

In my case, I had to activate 4K Stacks in the Kernel - the former driver versions needed 8K. Recompiling the kernel, and afterwards

cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

Also the circular dependency is fixed now.