[SOLVED]xorg && nvidia failure

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

ok, well ive been all over scouring the net for an answer for the past 3 days, and getting a little frustrated atm. im working on a fresh install, well a reinstall, and keep coming up with errors trying to configure xorg, and install the nvidia drivers

im on a windows machine typing this so bear with me. im just going to post the relevant parts.

here is my make.conf

ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

Good morning from Canada

As a dedicated nvidia user with gentoo i'm sure i could help you get this sorted. There's a few things I'm curious about the first results from this command

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

well following the guide, i did the eselect opengl list, and the only one there was xorg x11, and its selected.

first time around, i manually configured my kernel, being sure to not include the provided nvfb drivers, then tried a bunch of combinations, still the same result. so i did a genkernel, and still the same result.

im using a genkernel-2.6.26
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ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

try adding x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to /etc/portage/package.keywords then emerge nvidia-drivers. This should allow the newest nvidia drivers to install which should be better prepared for the newer kernel sources

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

im having this issue with all the nvidia-drivers packages?

if i get the proprietary drivers installed, will that fix my xorg problem?
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ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject:

yes it should.

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

thats exactly what i did, same error. with all of them
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ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject:

could you post more details on the error you get when emerging nvidia-drivers including the 'error' and the 50 lines previous?

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

thats all i get, i reviewed the log, and thats it.

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ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

So the driver package halts before any compiling actually begins or do you see lots of compiling then it stops? the reason I ask is that

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

no, no compiling, not even a check, what i posted is my error
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ali3nx · emerge =gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r6

ok fair enough

i'm fairly uncertain if any currently available nvidia drivers would build against 2.6.26 kernel sources due to some testing issues i've yet to resolve but this situation does appear to indicate that could be the situation. I'm 100% certain that if all other possible issues are negligible then the keyworded nvidia-drivers should build without fail against gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r6.

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

not even sure that i have python on there yet. im getting the 2.6.25-r6 sources, does the latest nvidia drivers work with that kernel?
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ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject:

certainly does

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

compiling kernel now, will get back to ya after rebooting, btw, I really appreciate your help.
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ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject:

No trouble at all mate. five years later after my first gentoo adventures i didn't get here without help from a lot of gentoo developers and very intelligent users.

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

me either. guess i should have known to look at which ones coincided with each other.
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MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

well that didnt do the trick, i checked python, and i have 2.4.4-r13 installed, and python-updater 0.2 installed. ??
im going to update python and all it deps well get back to ya in a bit
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MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

ok, which package is "find" and "sed" a part of? i ran the nvidia-driver.run fil myself, and i get an error "./conftest.sh: line 70: sed: command not found.
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ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

if i'm not mistaken they belong to sed and findutils.

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

ok, i got those figured out, it seems that i need to tell it to install the amd64 package, cause it cant decide between x86, amd64, or x86-fbsd, so how would i go about doing that?
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ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject:

perhaps a recap of what you've done during your install might be wise. emerge --info would be useful. secondly which livecd and stage did you use? it's highly unusual that sed and find would be missing from a new install. Did you leave your chroot by chance and forget to re chroot or reboot and need to remount any partitons? I've done it on occasion myself and this obviously results in missing files.

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

could be that you didn't create the symlink for your profile.
provide emerge --info or check it's a valid one.

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

somehow they got turned into "gsed" and "gfind" so i just linked them to what they were supposed to be. i used the 2008 minimal cd, but havent been on that for t days now. everything thats supposed to be mounted is. so i dont know.

ali3nx · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

Your linux header version is the same as most of my own machines so i dont think thats the problem. As to what could have renamed sed and find i'm completely uncertain. However I'll ask again as it does really make a difference with how well your gentoo installation will immediately function...

1) which livecd dvd you use and which stage?
2) did you use the either of the "automatic" installers on the new livecd or install manually with the console as most traditional gentoo installations have been?

If you used the gtk installer It's also more possible that something borked during your install. I personally haven't tested the automatic installers available with the new install media and I'll give credit where credit is due to the devs that maintain the automatic installer for making an effort but they also have a notorious history of failing to complete during 60-80% of most installations or creating more of a mess to fix afterwards if they do manage to complete an installation.