What do I have to do to fix these?

BenChambers · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

Ok. I did it all from stage 1, and when I look through my dmesg I get the following lines that stand out as potentially disturbing:

VP_IDE: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset
agpgart: no supported devices found
[drm:drm_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out.

it also gives me a lot of stuff about modules not found (including some /dev/vg which is the location of one of my Volume Group for LVM). What do these mean and how do I fix them? The agpgart is probably occurring because there is the built in (on motherboard) video card and the normal video card and I installed the stuff for the normal video card (i think)

secondshadow · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 362

BenChambers · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

But I don't want it to use the video card built in to my motherboard! The video card I want it to use is the nVidia GeForce something or other (2 or 3 I think)

Komunjara · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:21 am Post subject:

In that case disable the video card through your bios.
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secondshadow · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 362

1) IDE has nothing to do with video. IDE is your harddisk controller I would get THIS working before I worry about my video card.

2) I would, at the very least, investigate what the error dealing with eth0 is.

3) PLEASE POST THE SYSTEM SPECS! If you do so then someone might be able to tell you why agpgart is failing.

also, yes, komunjara is correct in asserting that if you don't want to use the built in video, disable it. But heres a question. You obviously have the computer working in order to read those logs correct? Well, which video card is the moniter plugged into? If its the Geforce, they you're probably okay. That AGPGART error is a problem with the AGP bus driver, not a problem with any particular video card. This is why I was asking for the system specs so I reiderate:
SYSTEM SPECS PLEASE!!

BenChambers · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

The machine is a cheap eMachine that I got a while ago. It has a L7VMM motherboard, with an Athlon XP 2000+. The search I did for the stats on the L7VMM are here. I am (probably stupidly) attempting to install with LVM, but that doesn't seem to be the major problem. The video card is one of the Visiontek Extasy cards with dual heads. When I went to their site I couldn't remember, but I'm pretty sure it is an nVidia chipset and not a radeon, I wasn't able to tell as there was no apparent labeling on the card itself.

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:08 pm Post subject:

These are some of the kernel options you want to enable for your VIA chipset.

freakin_duck · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Boston, MA

cyrillic is definitely right about the kernel options to compile in.

Also, though, some notes:

you have an nvidia card, and a Geforce at that. nvidia-kernel package needs to be emerged after you recompile yer kernel (EVERY time you recompile)

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia_tsg.xml

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:CDh9s-ZrH7YJ:www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia_tsg.xml+gentoo+nvidia&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

note that there is a list of the cards and whether or not to use agpgart or NVAGP, by putting the following entry in your XF86Config:

BenChambers · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

You have to emerge nvidia-kernel before you recompile the kernel? That's the problem, because it comes after in the documentation it seemed like you were supposed to emerge that stuff after recompiling... that helps a lot... what about the lvm-user package, before recompiling as well?

freakin_duck · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Boston, MA

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

emerge nvidia-kernel will compile a module
for your specific kernel, and will place that
module in /lib/modules/kernelversion. when
you compile a new kernel, a new module
dir will be created - which does not contain
the nvidia-kernel module yet. hence you
have to run emerge nvidia-kernel after
you compile a new kernel.

if you just recompile a kernel, you will not
have to emerge nvidia-kernel, since you
already did that for that specific kernel;
the module is still there.

freakin_duck · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Boston, MA

secondshadow · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 362

but what if something changes in the kernel that affects that particular driver? Isn't it just safer to recompile it? And I'm failrly certain that the last time I re-compiled my kernel I had to recompile my fglrx driver for my Radeon 9700...