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jerome187
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 Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject: Nvidia driver problems (they worked fine before!!) SOLVED |
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I did a massive upgrade of all my packages and now the nvidia drivers dont work.
| Code: | (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE8000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xF0000000
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
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I'm not sure whats going on, I do know the module is loaded and stuff cause its in the list that modprobe -l gives me. My xfree config file hasent changed at all either.
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JROCK2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| was one of the upgrades the kernel? If so you need to reinstall your nvidia drivers. If you have done this or your kernel was not upgraded post your XF86Config file so I can see it |
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Ateo
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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I'm going to pressume that with your massive upgrade, you also upgraded to a new kernel and have that new kernel running... With that, you need to recompile your nvidia drivers..
In fact, anytime you recompile your kernel (same one or not) you NEED to recompile ANY nvidia drivers.... This includes video and integrated NICs. |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| The kernel wasent upgraded actually, but even if it was I reemerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (i'm tryed it more than once!) I even did a emerge -C on both of them and emerged them again. |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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after emergeing nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx again now I have a different error, something about an API mismatch, the nvidia driver and the kernel module are compiled for different versions or something like that.
I will try to copy and paste the error but its not showing up in the xfree logs for some reason. |
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MIT_Service
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:53 am Post subject: |
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thats because you merged a new nvidia-kernel module.
The module now has the extension .ko instead of .o
you have to remove the old nvidia.o manually. |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Ahh ok, that makes sence because according to modprobe both the nvidia.o and the nvidia.ko modules are loaded. How do I remove the old module? |
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Vidar
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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as root rmmod nvidia.o, and modprobe nvidia.ko. Or you could find your modules path (should be /lib/modules/<kernelversion>/something) and rename them manually.
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jerome187
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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right on, that seemed to work!
thanks |
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