Black Screen of X [ solved ]

region-g · Last edited by region-g on Wed May 17, 2006 6:59 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi there,

i have just configured X and i had to check glx

papal_authority · Veteran Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1823 Location: Canada

Does this help? (The gentoo-wiki site is down right now unfortunately.)
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region-g · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:44 pm Post subject: nop

Finally i got the server running but only with the "nv" driver.
I use nvidia geforce 4 4200 Ti with AGP8X, i donwload the latest nvidia drivers but still working with nv.

The glxinfo | grep direct shows me "direct rendering : NO"

Is there something with the new nvidia drivers ?

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Wart · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 66

Which nvidia drivers did you emerge? i.e. x86 or ~x86?
Have you ever had X working before with the nvidia drivers?
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region-g · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: nv

First, i tried simple emerging the drivers and then i also tried the latest masked drivers 8178 (something like that).

Now i opengl-update nvidia and set "nvidia" at xorg.conf and i can't get it running.

At the past i had nvidia and direct render working fine, i haven't changed the installation procedure, it just didn't work this time.

Thanx
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Wart · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 66

Does the x log show anything interesting? /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Does the nvidia module load okay at boot?
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scorpion7700 · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 39 Location: USA

try using eselect. I think the syntax is "eselect opengl nvidia" but I'm not sure.

region-g · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:18 am Post subject: nop

U know after trying everything ( eselect is not recognized command ) i had the very smart idea to downgrade my nvidia driver, after that i could not even
load the nvidia module.

I have to opengl-update xorg-x11 and set the driver to "nv" to load kde.

So no nvidia module at start up ( not sure if this is caused by downgrading, or multi-editing the kernel).

As for the xorg.0.log file i will display it to u 2morrow cause now it seems fine with the old configuration.
Than u guys
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scorpion7700 · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Correction: the command should be eselect-opengl, not eselect. I think there's a message about it near the end of emerging the latest drivers.

gnychis · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:41 am Post subject:

i believe you have the same problem stated in my post
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426415-highlight-.html

region-g · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject: ok

thanx to u all

i'll try to finish and come up with a result ( i hope )

thanx again !!!
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region-g · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject: Wtf ?

Hey there i had no results i recompiled kernel kernel so many times that i can't find any other options to enable / disable as modules / build in.

So if i

scorpion7700 · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Try looking through /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors. Lines containing error messages will contain (EE) at or near the beginning. If you don't find any, try looking for warnings, which will contain (WW).

tSp · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:45 am Post subject: Re: nv

region-g · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

rathna · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 12

hi, i had the same problem you described.

But i got it right and running after i emerged the latest testing drivers. You might want to have a look at my post

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-449306-highlight-initialize+glx+extension.html

region-g · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject:

@rathna

Hello and thanx.

I have emerge the latest (8178) drivers(

, and still it doesn't work right, you know any other kind of solution ?
Your guide is pretty helpfull i'm going to .odt it !!!
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region-g · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:32 am Post subject:

Hello there created a user:l33t. Yesterday i switched to l33t then and i startx

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As you see as l33t i can get glx running, as root i can't.

What could be wrong. I'm sure i made a mistake.
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rathna · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 12

hi,

edit rc.conf and set the following parameters,

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Check if you have ,

region-g · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject:

Hi, the solution came after compiling inkernel as modules the I2C support .
Did that after a dmesg error.
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