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Manticore-X
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 Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:46 pm Post subject: Xorg problems |
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help :'(
On my comp i had to do a fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree. It errored the first time, and i finally got it finished. Scared that my files would all me gone i rebooted. Luckally, gentoo started without any complaints. When i tried to startx I got a quick black flash and an error saying
| Code: | (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
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I have tried reemerging nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx and xorg-x11. Still nothing is working. Does anyone know something i could do to fix it? |
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Twiggy794
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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A temporary workaround would be to change the Driver "nvidia" line in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to Driver "nv", as well as commenting out the Load "glx" line. Possibly what happened is your kernel got borked. Tried recompiling that?
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Ateo
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Try this.
| Code: | | # rm -fr /lib/modules/ |
Recompile kernel. Recompile both nvidia packages. Also recompile any other package that installs drivers into /lib/modules. You probably won't need to recompile xorg.
You might have corrupt drivers manifested from your hard drive issue. |
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Twiggy794
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Wouldn't | Code: | | rm -rf /lib/modules/(uname -r) |
be a bit more safe? Rather than delete the modules of every kernel that he has, just the one he's using.
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Manticore-X
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| Nothing. I recompiled my kernel and removed the /lib/modules/ and recompiled again. I then reemerged nvidia and xorg-x11 again, but still no luck. |
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Talsadus
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:52 am Post subject: |
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What happen when you:
#modprobe nvidia
then
#startx |
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Manticore-X
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:06 am Post subject: |
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same thing, i have nvidia to autoload. Xorg will work with the vga driver, but thats really not good. I dont want to reinstall gentoo, and dont think i need to, but so far it seems that i might  |
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Talsadus
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:54 am Post subject: |
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modprobe nvidia didn't give error?
Did you check if you are using nvidia-kernel & GLX 1.0.6111? |
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Manticore-X
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I forgot to mention i am on amd64. I am using the latest drivers for Nvidia (6111) and even tried their new ones not in portage yet. Im thinking maybe there is a symlink or something missing. Where are the Xorg modules stored so i can manually check to see if they are there. also what known symlinks go to this file. |
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Manticore-X
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Well i tried two more things. I erased my /etc/X11 and my /usr/X11R6 file and then reemerged xorg-x11. Still same thing. I can run it with the nv driver and no glx, but that wont work for me due to my need for gaming. Is there any alternitive other than a complete reinstall? |
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Manticore-X
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| well, if no one has any ideas by tommarow then i fear im gonna have to do a complete reinstall. Before that though, is there anyway to completely remove xorg-x11, when i just do emerge -C xorg-x11 it leaves behind quite a few files still having to do with it. It also comes up with a message at the start of the emerge saying that it sees that xorg has already been installed once. It then continues to compile, but i believe that it isnt actually replacing everything. Any ideas?! |
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catphish
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:16 am Post subject: solution perhaps |
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i had this same problem, i fixed it simply by emerging nvidia-glx (it wasnt installed before, wasn't aware it was required for non accelerated graphics), seems to work fine with it installed, perhaps it just needs remerging in this situation.
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