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Adel Ahmed
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 Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:23 pm Post subject: problem with nouveau drivers |
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system refuses to boot when I choose nouveau drivers either as modules or built into the kernel
when I select nouveau as a module, boot process hangs at "waiting for uevents to be processed"
If i compile nouveau into the kernel, boot process hangs after loading the nouveau modules
I can't install xorg  as a result
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DONAHUE
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| Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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information might help the diagnosis.
boot the gentoo kernel that boots,that does not have nouveau built in or as modules; run | Code: | emerge wgetpaste
emerge --info | wgetpaste
lspci | wgetpaste |
, build and save a kernel configuration with nouveau built in and run | Code: | | wgetpaste /usr/src/linux/.config |
Post the url's returned here.
Note that http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml has nouveau built in so that kms will function during the boot process.
Just saw your new thread, did you run | Code: | | emerge xf86-video-nouveau |
or see/verify it emerged during emerge xorg-server?
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DONAHUE
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suggest menuconfig change and new kernel, apparently some needed legacy code even for pcie hides in agp
| Quote: | <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) --->
--- /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
< > AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
<*> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
< > SiS chipset support
< > VIA chipset support |
| Code: | | qlist -IC x11-drivers |
should list | Quote: | x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau
x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev
x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics |
after emerge xorg-server completes with VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" in /etc/portage/make.conf
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Adel Ahmed
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| Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| qlist does indeed list these drivers, however even after compiling the new kernel, the system refuses to boot |
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| Code: | emerge -s udev
rc-update | grep-i udev |
what's installed and where?
suggest enable rc_logger="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and check /var/log/rc.log after the next try for possible additional info
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| Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:48 am Post subject: |
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udev's latest version is installed, and here's the rc-update result:
udev | sysinit
udev-mount | sysinit
here's an rc.log after trying to boot using the nouveau kernel
rc shutdown logging started at Wed Mar 13 06:19:46 2013
* Stopping local
[ ok ]
* Saving random seed ...
[ ok ]
* Deactivating additional swap space ...
[ ok ]
* Unmounting network filesystems ...
[ ok ]
* Bringing down interface lo
* Removing addresses
* Stopping DHCP Client Daemon ...
[ ok ]
* Unmounting loop devices
* Unmounting filesystems
* Unmounting /boot ...
[ ok ]
* Deactivating swap devices ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping udev ...
[ ok ]
* Setting hardware clock using the system clock [UTC] ...
[ ok ]
rc shutdown logging stopped at Wed Mar 13 06:19:47 2013
I'm not sure what this log does but i think the nouveau boot up was not logged |
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Well I followed the advice on the other thread and emerged the older version of gentoo-sources
I now have a nouveau enabled kernel
but I can't startx, I get no screens found when I do so, also my resolution does not change(in my older installation, the resolution changed at boot when I added nouveau support to the kernel) |
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