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Galumph
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 Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:20 pm Post subject: Nvidia and DRI/DRI2 in Xorg 1.9 |
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I just compiled Xorg server 1.9 only to discover it won't start. A few momets later I learn it can't load two modules named dri and dri2.
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(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (Module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (Module does not exist, 0)
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Same goes for nvidia:
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(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
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It then says it there are no drivers available (not shit sherlock) and that it's giving up.
Obviously, I'm either missing the drivers, or someone decided it'd be really cool if they were renamed. Does anyone know what should be done?
my xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log look like this and this respectively. |
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1clue
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jburns
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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The dri and dri2 errors are normal with the nvidia driver. You need a newer driver than 195.36.31 which is giving you a "dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: miEmptyData" error message. Add x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to /etc/portage/package.keywords and re-emerge the x11-drivers. | Code: | echo "x11-drivers >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -1av $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) |
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Galumph
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Never mind, spoke to some guys at #gentoo and I decided to stay on 1.77 for now. I'll try upgrading again later this week. |
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Gusar
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| If you want to use xorg 1.9, you need nvidia 260.* drivers. And, as 1clue says, dri/dri2 errors are normal, nvidia doesn't use either of them |
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doctork
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:13 am Post subject: |
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| Gusar wrote: | | If you want to use xorg 1.9, you need nvidia 260.* drivers. And, as 1clue says, dri/dri2 errors are normal, nvidia doesn't use either of them |
I agree on the dri/dri2 issue -- that's been around forever. However, I'd note that the combination of x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.0.902 and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53 works for me. I'm running kde-4.4.5, but don't do a lot of heavy graphics stuff.
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Gusar
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| doctork wrote: | | I agree on the dri/dri2 issue -- that's been around forever. However, I'd note that the combination of x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.0.902 and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53 works for me. I'm running kde-4.4.5, but don't do a lot of heavy graphics stuff. |
You don't notice any slowness? Something changed in 1.9, causing nvidia driver to have very slow font rendering. They fixed that in the 260.* driver. |
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