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Phancy Physicist
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 Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:13 am Post subject: problem: nVidia on AMD64 *SOLVED* |
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I am very frusturated right now. Three days ago xorg and nvidia worked perfectly, then I
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emerge sync
emerge --newuse --update --deep world
emerge -v depclean
revdep-rebuild
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but it still worked then i
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emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx nvidia-settings
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and that is wan the problems started. First i got
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EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA module!
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I read some people saying that
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emerge -e system
emerge -e world
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might help. it didn't
I tried the nvidia install but I tried to install to modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/
but I deleted that because i'm using 2.6.12-gentoo-r6
so I tried to reinstall
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emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx nvidia-settings
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and now it says
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(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
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the important parts of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf
| Code: | Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extensi$
EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
Load "type1"
# Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
# Load "dri"
EndSectionSection "Device"
Identifier "nVidia GeForce 9800TX OC"
Driver "nvidia"
# Option "RenderAccel" "true"
# Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
# Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
# Option "HWCursor" "1"
# Option "CursorShadow" "true"
# Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "100"
# Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "4"
# Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "2"
#VideoRam 262144
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
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some more info
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# lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 4052796 0
snd_seq_midi 7552 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 7232 0
snd_emux_synth 37056 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 6528 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 7872 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_pcm_oss 50912 0
snd_mixer_oss 16320 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 34368 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7232 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 55616 8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_emu10k1 86564 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 23392 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 8080 7 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 88216 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 87880 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 22216 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9160 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4032 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 8800 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd 51272 13 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
0000:00:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
0000:00:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] (rev a1)
cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: kernel modules to load when system boots.
#
# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels.
#
# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system
# starts into this file, one per line. Comments begin with # and
# are ignored. Read man modules.autoload for additional details.
# For example:
# 3c59x
nvidia
cat /etc/make.conf
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=k8 -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -msse2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
USE="-3dfx 3dnow a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 avi bash-completion bcmath
cdr cjk crypt divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr dvdread examples ffmpeg fftw exif
flash freetype freewnn gd gif glut -gnome gtk gtk2 gstreamer imagemagick
imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg -kde ming mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mp3
mpeg multilib nocd nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss -pcmcia
pdflib png posix -qt quicktime readline scanner spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl stroke threads truetype unicode usb utf8 v4l video_cards_nvidia -voodoo3 win32codecs X Xaw3d xml xml2 xmms xvid amd64"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo"
ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1"
ALSA_TOOLS="as10k1 ac3dec"
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
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Here is the beauty of the whole thing. Changing "nvidia" to "nv" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf works but of course i get no opengl or hardward aceleration.
I am completely at a loss on how to fix this. Anyone have any suggesttions.
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R!tman
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| Did you compile your kernel from the sources that are linked to /usr/src/linux? This is necessary for the nvidia stuff to be built correctly. |
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mizery de aria
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Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:55 am Post subject: |
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what version of nvidia-kernel did you emerge?
I noticed that at times when I had issues with the nvidia-kernel driver, merely reemerging a lower version resolved the issue. I'm actually having a problem myself with upgrading to a newer kernel and using the latest nvidia-kernel drivers. I'm going to try older versions hopefully to resolve the issue.
kernel: linux-2.6.11-hardened-r15
any suggestions what nvidia-kernel version to use?
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Phancy Physicist
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:04 am Post subject: |
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I was going to try going back to kernel 2.6.11 but I already delete it and it is gone from portage 
I tried 2.6.12-gentoo-r8 but no good. I'm sure that /usr/src/linux pointed to the right kernel everytime
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card and version info
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 11:
43:48 PST 2004
GCC version: gcc version 3.4.3 20041125 (Gentoo 3.4.3-r1, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.
7)
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Disabled
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge: PCI device 1106:0282
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 8x
Registers: 0x1f000a1a:0x00000000
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 8x 4x
Registers: 0xff000e1b:0x00000000
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
Model: GeForce 6800 GT
IRQ: 193
Video BIOS: ??.??.??.??.??
Card Type: AGP
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I'm going to try downgrading the nVidia drivers. |
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Phancy Physicist
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:28 am Post subject: Solution |
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Sometimes we play it safe too much. I was too worried about fixing what I broke then to think to replace what was broken.
The fix is
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx nvidia-settings
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I have, as I think many of us have, forgoten that the native 64-bit is still underdevlopment. The problem wasn't settings or conf files or installation.
The simple fact is that the "safe 64-bit drivers" where incompatable with the 2.6.12 kernel. You need to got to the unstable branch for this problem.
I was seriously beating my head of my desk trying to figure this out. DUH![/code] I have had a little problem with my sound lately so I think i am going "unstable" to try and fix that too.
wish me luck. 
-PP
P.S. some testing stats
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glxgears
81863 frames in 5.0 seconds = 16372.600 FPS
87397 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17479.400 FPS
85866 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17173.199 FPS
88435 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17687.000 FPS
84657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 16931.400 FPS
glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
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R!tman
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:55 am Post subject: Re: Solution |
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glxgears
81863 frames in 5.0 seconds = 16372.600 FPS
87397 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17479.400 FPS
85866 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17173.199 FPS
88435 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17687.000 FPS
84657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 16931.400 FPS |
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Nice scores ! I do not get that much with my Gigabyte 6800U, probably due to the BFG's OCing  . |
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