xorg-server-1.7 hates nvidia-drivers. <solved> Joy!

pappy_mcfae · Last edited by pappy_mcfae on Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:35 am; edited 2 times in total

As it says, if you're running ~arch, and you update, and you are running an nvidia card using the nvidia-drivers package, you will have trouble. Apparently, xorg-server-1.7.x and nvidia-drivers don't work together at all. If you've already been hit with this, you will find it hard to get back to xorg-server-1.6.x. It took me a half-hour or so to figure it out and move backwards.

If you have updated, and now find you can't get back to xorg-server-1.6.x, do the following:

1. Add the following to your /etc/portage/package.mask file:

jimhend~1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 89

i had the same problems with xorg-server-1.7.1 conflicting with ati-drivers-9.10 fglrx 8.66.2 [Sep 23 2009]
i have to downgrade back to xorg-1.6.5
thanks for your howto

duryodhana · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 66

After upgrading to gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4 and unmasking nvidia-drivers-190.42-r1,
xorg-server-1.7.1 still conficts with nvidia-drivers, so I'm sticking to xorg-server-1.6.5.
BTW I have xorg-drivers-1.7 installed.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:15 am Post subject:

thanks for the warning

I saw the upgrade this morning, but hadn't gotten around to even trying it.
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i4dnf · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject:

I've hit the same problem with nvidia-drivers-190.42-r1. Now using the drivers after modifying the ebuild and it works fine with xorg-server-1.7.1 (all that was needed was to modify the version of xorg-server the ebuild wants, in my local overlay).
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albright · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:40 pm Post subject:

i4dnf · COMMON="<x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.99

copy the current ebuild in the tree to your local overlay, then change the version in the following line (line 26 in the ebuild) :

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1932

Don't forget to unmask the beta drivers, though because the normal ~arch ones won't work!

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject:

I tried ebuild modification. It didn't work. I had to completely backtrack to 1.6.5. That's fine with me. I can't really tell any difference between this machine (Intel GPU, no problems moving on up), and the machines still running the old version.

I'll have to wait until nvidia gets their act together.

Blessed be!
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

a)
it also hates FGLRX

(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: resVgaShared
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)

b)
I couldn't go back because libXtst failed to build. Luckily I had packages.

c)
turn on the binpkg feature it really makes life a lot easier.
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agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

Fixed beta ebuilds are in the tree but need to be unmasked. The beta drivers have been supporting xorg-server-1.7rc versions. This one ain't really nvidia's fault. 190.42-r1 working fine here.
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djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 67 Location: St. Paul MN

Thanks, Pappy! I was *this* close to panicking when I re-emerging xorg-server-1.6.5 and got the error message. I was all like...yeah, I don't need to backup my install before trying the new xorg-server...

Wolfbone · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 30

I think the situation is worse for anyone with an older video card. There is no support in newer nvidia drivers for older cards and I don't suppose Nvidia are ever going to bother fixing the legacy nvidia-drivers versions to work with the new xorg-server. An emerge upgrade does the right thing and skips the xorg-server-1.7.1 upgrade if a legacy nvidia-drivers version is installed, but it also upgrades all the other stuff mentioned in the first post and then xorg-server-1.6.5 will fail to rebuild. There is a bug report here https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290679 (although the reporter has marked it INVALID - perhaps not realising that the problem is likely to persist for some people).

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:07 am Post subject:

Thanks Pappy, I had this upgrade tonight.... I saw just in time your How to

shallpion · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 331

F-0_ICE · l33t Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 679

thanks pappy this helped alot. also for fellow fglrx users you may need to run

energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

wrc1944 · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:28 am Post subject:

Pappy,
Thanks for the info- I use ATI (radeon driver), but apparently this got me too.

However, i can't emerge xorg-server- i get this- any ideas?

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:02 am Post subject:

Try the how-to above. You have to make sure you do it as I've got it laid out. Otherwise, you will run into compilation errors, file collisions, and so forth. You may have to search for further packages as well.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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wrc1944 · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:14 am Post subject:

Thanks for the quick reply, Pappy!

I did it exactly as described, but it didn't work. Had no collisions or other compile problems, except xorg-server-1.6.5.
I've undone it and went back to 1.7.1 with the other updated packages, and rebuilt all x11-drivers. I'm trying radeonhd as my driver instead of radeon, but I don't expect it to work. BTW, this is a ~x86 qt-4.6/kde-live system, which I just did a complete @world update on, but NOT qt and kde-live yet. Would that make a difference with the xorg problem I'm having?

EDIT: Hmmmm weird- I changed to the radeonhd driver in xorg.conf, and restarted X. Seems to work, although i had to adjust my display settings back to my normal 1280x1024@75. I hope it survives a reboot. :roll:

EDIT2: OK- X survived a reboot- I got back into kde-live, but my display settings didn't survive. It always reverts to 1280x1024@85 or 1600x1200 Guess a qt/kde-live rebuild is next. This display settings randomly problem happens all the time with kde-live or kde-4.x.x, on several distros. No amount of xorg.conf tweaking or no xorg.conf at all seems to reliably fix it, for months now.

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jormaa · n00b Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 12

I also got hit with this on my amd64 desktop and thanks to Pappy got back fairly easy. Before reverting back i tried to install nvidia-drivers from local repository as instructed above,got trough install but X server used xorg GLX-extension instead of Nvidia so i gave up and reverted.

Today i wanted to try if it works on my x86 laptop and lo and behold, i got x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-190.42-r1 running without a hitch.

So in summary:

x86_64 with Geforce 260 GTX + x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-190.42-r1 don't run for me

but

x86 with Geforce 8600M GT x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-190.42-r1 works
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M · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 432

I read this thread yesterday and expected some problems, I always had nvidia-drivers unmasked and upgrade went as usual smoothly, just that I forgot to reinstall input drivers, but that is always required when version of server changes so no big deal, and I don't see xorg-server dep in 190.42 ebuilds, only in 190.40 and earlier versions, so with unmasked drivers everything works for me.

John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject:

Pappy,

You might want to update your howto to liberally sprinkle in the --oneshot option. Your instructions turn an awful lot of things that should just be dependencies into installed packages in the world file.

- John
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webway · n00b Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 14 Location: UK

I could not get xorg 1.7 to work with the xorg nv driver either. I recompiled it, along with the rest of x11-drivers/ as part of the upgrade and X segfaulted in nv every time I started it. I had to revert back to 1.6.5 where all is working fine again.