nVidia doesn't work with Xorg [solved?]

MKA · n00b Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Europe/Finland

After numerous attempts in trying to get nVidia to work in Xorg in the past few weeks, I've come up with no solutions.

The latest attempt to fix it was with the help of this: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-333781.html

nVidia card in question: GeForce 2 MX

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

MKA,

Post the output of

dryadcito · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject:

I'm a bit lost with this post. You have emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, but you're using a generic vesa driver. Which drivers do you want to use???

In the log file you can read it has loaded nvidia module:

MKA · n00b Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Europe/Finland

@NeddySeagoon

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject:

MKA,

Take the RIVA support out of framebuffer in the kernel.
I'm not sure its your problem but only the vesa and vesa-tng framebuffer drivers are known to be safe with the nVidia X video driver.
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dryadcito · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject:

Nice, then there are some questions...

you can't emerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx if you have riva-framebuffer compiled into the kernel, so .. is the config you posted from the kernel you were using when emerged the packages?

Remember these things when installing these packages:
1) Make sure your /usr/src/linux symlink points to the kernel source tree of you current kernel. This means each time you compile a new kernel you will have to emerge them again.
2) Perhaps you could install some newer drivers, but I'm not sure if there is any issue with you graphics card... Anyway you can try.
3) The kernel and these packages must be compiled with the same version of gcc.

this is my config file ( only the part related with this ):

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject:

dryadcito,

It was the

dryadcito · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

Ok, thanks for the answer, I can remember even what I did yesterday :p

Anyway, now I have both and in fact I NEED them, because I had commented that and stopped working after some updates until I uncommented it. I'm saying this again in order to make it clear to the user who started this thread.

MKA · n00b Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Europe/Finland

@dryadcito
1. `modprobe nvidia` fails if that's incorrect, so it can't be..
2. As I said in the original post, I had tried all the versions available in portage.
3. `modprobe nvidia` would fail here too.
So none of those help me..

@NeddySeagoon
Compiling RivaFB as module does not cause any problems, nor does removing it make any go away (other than the one mention of its existence when emerging nvidia-kernel and such). All there is, is that the rivafb module must not be loaded when using the nvidia module, and that's easily fixed with rmmod if it was loaded during boot-up. And yes, I've tested with and without compiling the rivafb module, but that was when I first encountered the emerge problem almost a year ago.
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MKA · n00b Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Europe/Finland

While I was trying to emerge different (masked) versions of Xorg in hopes of fixing the broken nv, I noticed the Xorg emerge mentioning something at the end (which disappeared quite soon without anythig drastic happening, so it was no wonder I didn't spot it before). But anyways, I tried it, and apparently nvidia driver now works fine.

This was what it said would fix it, whatever it was that Xorg's emerge said to be broken.