I hate nvidia drivers!

particleman14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 83

I d/led driver from website and my glx gears wont work
and i also added modules and it syas nothing is using nvidia in "lsmod"
also i added nvidia to autoload crap
when i try to unquote glx X wont start so i leave it in
when i try to change driver"nv" to "nvidia" X wont start so i left it
is there soemthing i missed? what am i doing wrong???!!

chotchki · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:13 am Post subject:

Okay first when you compiled your kernel what sources are you using?
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particleman14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 83

gentoo sources

arand · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 215

Would you post the relevent sections from your XF86Config, like the modules section and the section on your video card? I am assuming that you followed the instructions in the docs on the desktop configuriation.

Here is my output from lsmod

particleman14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 83

i get unused when i lsmod
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chotchki · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:55 am Post subject: Steps

The steps to get nvidia working were:

particleman14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 83

k well umm it says all this weird crap i ant read

what do i need to do to fully uninstall all drivers then recompile my nvidia kernel and all that jazz??

chotchki · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:23 am Post subject: Post

Could you cut and paste it into a post?
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particleman14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 83

no i dun wanna

i wanna start over with a clean install

chotchki · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:40 am Post subject:

Okay just unemerge using

particleman14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 83

still nothing!!

Is there no hope for mee1?

when i unquote glx fuks up X
wheni change nv to nvidia in divers fuks up X

i reemerged gls and nvidia-kernel like 8 times still nothing!!

whats there left to do??

chotchki · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:11 am Post subject:

Can you post the results of your X logs that are stored in /var/log? Specifically any error messages.
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particleman14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 83

i dun dun know where to go through to find errors as i go through it
i look but it's a big file

mabe if i installed a nv driver from nvidia.com?
and unmerged my nvidia-kerneland nvidia-glx??

chotchki · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:32 am Post subject:

Any errors should occur towards the end of the file, and from what i've read about the nvidia.com packages, they should be the same as a emerge.
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DarrenM · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 7:19 am Post subject:

Maybe you need to do an "opengl-update nvidia"