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a7med76
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:17 am    Post subject: i can't get nvidia drivers work Reply with quote

Hi,
nvidia-drivers is installed but, for two days now i am trying to switch the vga driver to use nvidia-drivers but all attempts failed. :(
would you please help me out with this;
this is my make.conf
    ####################################################
    ## ATTENTION: THIS IS THE MAKE.CONF ON THE LIVECD ##
    ## PLEASE EDIT /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf INSTEAD ##
    ####################################################
    # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
    # built this stage.
    # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example.
    #CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
    CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
    CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
    # This should not be changed unless you know exactly what you are doing. You
    # should probably be using a different stage, instead.
    CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
    ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=""
    MAKEOPTS="-j2"
    USE="device-mapper dvb java nvidia samba scanner usb multilib visualization gtk"
    FEATURES="parallel-fetch"
    VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa"

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How are you trying to switch drivers and what's telling you that you're not loading the nvidia mdriver?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You don't change video_cards, you change the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf; in the section "Device" and on the line "Driver" you place in the " " the word 'nvidia'
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

when changed the value of the Diver to "nvidia" but X does not start

here is the default value "Devise Section" of xorg.conf
    Section "Device"
    ### Available Driver options are:-
    # sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
    #Option "sw_cursor"
    #Option "hw_cursor"
    #Option "NoAccel"
    #Option "ShowCache"
    #Option "ShadowFB"
    #Option "UseFBDev"
    #Option "Rotate"
    Identifier "Card0"
    # The following line is auto-generated by x11-misc/mkxf86config
    Driver "vesa"
    VendorName "All"
    BoardName "All"
    # BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
    EndSection
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Change the driver entry back to nvidia and try to startx. When it fails, run
Code:
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and post the output.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bltngshp wrote:
Change the driver entry back to nvidia and try to startx. When it fails, run
Code:
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and post the output.


this is what i have got:
Code:
(WW) waring, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
(EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7)
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to load module "wfb" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) NVIDIA (0): Failed to initialize the GLX module: please check in your X
(EE) NVIDIA (0):        log file that the GLX module has loaded in your X
(EE) NVIDIA (0):        server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If
(EE) NVIDIA (0): you continue to encounter problems, please try
(EE) NVIDIA (0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
(EE) NVIDIA (0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA (0): ***Aborting***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.


is there an easier way of posting the outputs if i am in the CL. i have typed all that, i know it is stupid but i just do not know a proper way to do it. :(

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