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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject:

ck42,

That doesn't apply to you.
Did you do an xorg update ?

It would be interesting to try the nv and vesa drivers and see what the log file says about modules to try to narrow the problem down to xorg or the nvidia driver.

Which version of the nvidia-kerenl do you have?
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ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

Yes, I did update xorg. Now running 6.7.99.2 (tried .99.902 but it couldn't initialize the core keyboard no matter what I tried)

Using the "nv" driver as I am right now, in my Xorg.0 log there is:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject:

ck42,

I was more thinking of a section like

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject:

ck42,

Yes. No mention of modules there either, so it can't be that important.
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tuxp3 · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 61

currently i have the following installed:
[ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111 15,138 kB
[ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6111 -multilib 15,138 kB
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 -3dfx -3dnow -cjk -debug -debug -dlloader -doc -ipv6 +mmx +nls +pam -sdk +sse +static 7,622 kB
[ebuild R ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.8.1 30 kB

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if you notice i have to use +static in xorg-x11 other wise i get 'unresolved symbols' and various errors
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Now my xorg.conf:

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Have you tried uncommenting 'Load "dri"' and commenting 'Load "GLcore"'?

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

Actually, no I haven't. What are your thoughts on this? :?:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:23 am Post subject:

ck42,

We know you config works because it runs the nVidia driber on my system under XFree.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject:

ck42,

Your config is OK too. I've migrated to Xorg here and my box starts X using your config file.

That leaves the kernel, the nvidia module or xorg itself.
Which kernel are you using (exactly) and can you post the config file for it and the output of emerge --info

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I'm convinced it down to the lack of modules appearing in your log. I get this running your config.

coren2000 · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:21 am Post subject: Same Problems

Im having similar problems to ck. If you figure something out CK please post here so others can fix themselves up:)

coren2000 · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 3:25 am Post subject: hardened gcc-3.41 xorg

ok, on another thread in the forum, people who had put 'hardened' into their make.conf USE flags and had used gcc-3.4.1 were unable to run Xorg. A fix was discovered to compile xorg as static.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=193512&highlight=xorg+static

however, what static as a useflag means is that libraries that would normally are modules to X are now compiled directly into X.

This static flag disables X modules, meaning you cant load that newly emerged nvidia-kernel driver.

This was my case. I had to re-emerge gcc, re-emerge xorg, and re-emerge nvidia-kernel without that hardened flag.

might your problem be similar?

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

coren: No 'hardened' flag in my $USE. Glad you got your problem solved though.

Neddy:

I've since updated kernels and am currently using 2.6.9-rc1-love1.
Also, just to rule out one more thing, I've replaced the video card with a Ti4200 (was a Ti450). Same EXACT behavior.

Here's the .config

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject:

ck42,

That all looks sane. Theres one or two oddities but nothing that should break nVidia.

What do you use RieserFS for?
I'm tempted to tar my kernel tree and post it on the web for you to try. Its not quite the same as yours but the major thing missing is RieserFS. Its a 2.6.8-gentoo-r1.

I could also try your config here but that will need to wait until the weekend since I need to build your kernel from scratch.
Can you tar your kernel tree and post it in some webspace?
It will be >100Mb so you may want to bz2 it too.

I'm still convinced its xorg related, since you don't get any modules messages in the X log file.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:20 pm Post subject:

ck42,

OK, I've got your kernel and it boots here. I had to build the nVidia driver for myself, since its built outside of the kernel and is therfore not in the tree you uploaded.

When I modprobed nvidia by hand, I got an undefined symbol error. So I have to ask, does lsmod show nvidia loaded?
If so, please scp me your /lib/modules//2.6.9-rc1-love1/video/nvidia.ko file so I can plug it in here.

If nvidia is missing from lsmod, do

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

Neddy,

Yes, lmod shows nvidia loaded:

Bithammer · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:30 pm Post subject:

I run 2.6.9 rc1 because i need the intel fixes for the acpi on my mobo.

there is a ebuild fix for the nvidia driver which exchanges pci get class to work with this new kernel, it is somewhere around in this forum, just search for 2.6.9 you will find it.
(Copy in overlay directory)

My problem at the end with crashing x that i had a .xinitrc which does xmodmap (used to run perfectly but after emerging xorg again it crashed my X server just right after it initalized the mouse. I would recommend to use the kernel agp driver for the nvidia, this runs Warcraft perfectly on my machine since several days ;-)

Probably have a look at such a simple thing ? (Remove .xinitrc or any keboard mappers if you have used one before, just to exclude this as problem ...)

tuxp3 · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 61

ok like mentioned a few posts ago, if you use the 'static use flag then the NVIDIA driver wont work, but without compiling xorg with static it gives me all sorts of errors 'unresolved symbols' and stuff of that nature

for the sake of time, im going to leave it as it is..
but very soon im gonna redo my entire gentoo system and will try to figure out how to get rid of that +static use flag
IF ONLY i had a faster computer :-P

Thanks for the help

DesertFox · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 53

Well, ck42, I had the exact same problem as you. Hopefully it will have the same solution.

I had the nvidia drivers working perfectly, and had just finished an emerge -u world, and decided to install xorg with the +static use flag. After that, no matter what, the nvidia driver wouldn't load. And, it created all the same problems that you were having. It doesn't matter what the nvidia driver is, xorg couldn't load it. So, I removed the static use flag, and checked it with

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

Interesting. I'll try re-emerging xorg -static when I get my system straightened out (In middle of moving to new drive with reiser4 setup)

...as mentioned tho, not much help if -static causes xorg build to fail. :roll:

But I'll certainly try!!

thnx for the suggestion!

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

Ok...no go.

DesertFox · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 53

yeah, it shouldn't be the flags. mine are the same as yours, but -O3 instead of -O2, only difference.

lets see if it is groff . . .

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

Ok....maybe time to put this one to bed.

Somewhere along the line of moving drives/partition formats (r4), and doing other stuff, the problem fixed itself.

If I had to guess, it would be that it had something to do with moving to udev.

....now to get my hdd and sound card working again :roll:

alexeyp · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:23 am Post subject:

I just got it!

I've checked dmesg after the attempt to modprobe nvidia. It complains on incompatibility between the required version of the driver, with "gcc 3.3" at the end, and actual version of the driver, with "gcc 3.4" at the end.
So, I thought - it must be the kernel. I did: