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 Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] |
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Having trouble getting my video card to work. I followed the guide here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
Did everything it said which worked up until I tried this glxinfo | grep direct which said no for direct rendering. I went ahead and kept going though as it doesnt tell you how to solve the problem.Then I ran glxgears which worked fine then I restarted X which left me with a nvidia splash screen and a cursor. So I restarted X again and re-edited my xorg.conf back to "nv" instead of "nvidia" which allowed me load my GUI again. Here is my xorg.conf file:
| Code: | Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
#Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 320 240 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "VSC"
ModelName "A70"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 180.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
#Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPTweak" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
#Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPTweak" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864"
Viewport 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection
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After I changed my xorg.conf back to "nv" instead of "nvidia" for the driver I get this error when trying to run glxgears:
| Code: | glxgears
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual. |
and when I try:
| Code: | glxinfo | grep direct
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
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Sorry if this info seems out of order in any way new to Gentoo and all this manual editing of config files. Also I ran "lsmod" and got:
| Code: | lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 3465244 -
snd_mixer_oss 16896 -
snd_seq_midi_event 6176 -
snd_ens1371 19300 -
snd_rawmidi 20128 -
snd_seq_device 6732 - |
Thanks for any help, I tried searching the forums but a lot the help I found similiar probs sounded greek to me. 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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can you tell me which versions of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx you are using, also have you changed your kernel recently?
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blackvd
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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How can I tell which versions of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx I'm using? And I haven't changed my kernel since I tried getting my video card to work.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:02 am Post subject: |
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Found out. I'm using nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 and nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:24 am Post subject: |
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So I tried running a word game I downloaded and I'm getting this error:
| Code: | | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" |
Think that might have something to do with my problem?
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:45 am Post subject: |
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I have the -exact- same problem as you..
however, after looking at nvidia's pages, I find this..
| Quote: | The following products are not supported in the current ForceWare Release 75 driver. Please continue to use the previous ForceWare Release 70 drivers available here.
TNT2
TNT2 Pro
TNT2 Ultra
TNT2 Model 64 (M64)
TNT2 Model 64 (M64) Pro
Vanta
Vanta LT
GeForce 256
GeForce DDR
GeForce2 GTS
GeForce2 Pro
GeForce2 Ti
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce2 MX Integrated graphics
Quadro
Quadro2 Pro
Quadro2 EX
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the link just kicks back to the latest drivers tho', so I'm unsure what to do.. let me know if you find the 70 driver... hope this helps a bit 
[EDIT]
try with this driver:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6629.html
I'll give an update if I make it work
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statmobile
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:19 am Post subject: |
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I thought he was using 1.0.6629, and that was the problem? When I tried running the nvidia drivers on my TNT 64 I got panics in my Xorg.0.log saying that it wasn't supported. I couldn't seem to find any of the portage drivers supporting it, but I may have been doing something wrong.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:59 am Post subject: |
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See this thread.
It seems that 7174 is that last driver with legacy support. Install using ebuild and then if having problems read the man page /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r1/README.gz |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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I got the driver 7174 what I'm wondering is do I need to unmerge any thing nvidia I installed earlier? Also how do I ebuild the driver(run file)?
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx
cd /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-kernel
emerge nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174.ebuild --oneshot
cd /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-glx
emerge nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5.ebuild --oneshot
opengl-update nvidia |
Its not the proper way, but the proper way sux 
DO not use the nvidia-installer!
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blackvd
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome got it working! Thanks a lot for the replys!  For anyone out there whose as slow as me I unmerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx then rebooted to terminal and ran the install. Only prob was screen was off a little but fixed that with my monitor.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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For the record, the best way to set this up in portage so that it doesn't update your nvidia drivers during the next emerge world, you should have a file
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/etc/portage/package.keywords
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If the portage directory doesn't exist, then create it. Then you should put the following two lines in it:
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=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5
=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174
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Now, could you confirm that the original post is your setup for the video card. I just gave up on the nvidia drivers recently, but I would love to get them working. This is what I am using
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$ sudo lspci | grep -i riva
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
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Can you confirm this is what you have?
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:04 am Post subject: |
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Actually, I think my problem may be the kernel I'm using. Could you tell me what kernel this is working on?
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cokey
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx have to be the same version and -r
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx have to be the same version and -r |
But the revisions don't match on all the legacy drivers in portage, how does one work around that?
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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add the ones that match to /etc/portage/package.keywords, i just have the testing ones so this in mine: | Code: | george@steinbeck ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords
media-video/nvidia-kernel ~amd64
media-video/nvidia-glx ~amd64
app-admin/eselect-opengl ~amd64
app-admin/eselect ~amd64
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That will get the latest drivers. If you want certain versions you have to add an "=" infront of it and a version at the end like =media-video/nvidia-kernel-7174
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