EEEEK! Upgrade to Xfree 4.3 and Latest Nvidia drivers = fail

Zarathustra[H]

Hey all...

I just did an emerge -up --deep world, which among other things upgraded my xfree to 4.3.something and upgraded my Nvidia drivers to the latest versions.

Problems...

X wont start...

When it goes to load KDM on boot it looks just like it usually does when you compile a new kernel without having reemerged the nvidia drivers.

Any idea wheat may be wrong? Does this upgrade of X and nvidia drivers require major config file surgery?

Thanks,
Matt
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Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 1:39 am Post subject:

Oh And I forogt to mention the important part..

It says that screens are found, but none of the are properly configured.

It says it fails to initialize the nvidia kernel module.

These same conrfigured screens initialized the 3139 kernel module just fine though.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks,
Matt
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handsomepete · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 1:43 am Post subject:

New nvidia driver has a different name (if you emerged that one). It's nvidia instead of NVdriver. I saw some of this going on in #gentoo today but didn't get to see the resolutions, so that's the only suggestion I've got.

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:06 am Post subject:

handsomepete · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:25 am Post subject:

FWIW, that's in reference to /etc/modules.autoload, not for your XF86Config (well, yes it'll be nvidia in there too). Check modules.autoload to make sure that it says nvidia instead of NVdriver (I'm now assuming that you're using the most recent). Or, for that matter, just modprobe it.

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 6:22 am Post subject:

cylgalad · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 1327 Location: France

You need to reinstall the opengl part but it shouldn't prevent X from loading, just glxinfo to crash it :lol:

d3vlin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 134

the older nvidia-kernel was a module called 'NVdriver' and the newer is called 'nvidia'. AFAIK the older had to be loaded using the /etc/modules.autoload. After emering the new driver I removed that line from autoload and did a modules-update and all was fine. No need to add the 'nvidia' to /etc/modules.autoload.

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:16 pm Post subject:

Moonlit_Knight · n00b Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 39

This thread was a life saver

I had the exact same problem.. I updated the modules.autoload and everything was almost perfect.

I just had to go back and reset my Xservers file to use -dpi 100 -depth 24.

Moonlit Knight

brainlock · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

just so you know, you don't need to put anything related to nvidia in you modules.autoload file anymore (if you use devfs that is). The module is being loaded automagically by /etc/modules.d/nvidia

Brainlock

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:43 am Post subject:

heijs · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:09 am Post subject:

Same problem here... I use devfsd as well, but I have to put the nvidia module in /etc/modules.autoload or nothing happens...

brainlock · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

if you load X on boot and nvidia module doesn't get loaded, then yes, you are right, there is a problem.

on the other hand, if you boot without X, it is normal that nvidia doesnt seem to get loaded (it will not show up with lsmod) don't worry about that. Once you startx, then the module will be automagically loaded (again, no need to put it in modules.autoload).

Brainlock