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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:51 am    Post subject: [SOLVED] X.org: "No devices detected" Reply with quote

Hi.
I have Linux Gentoo with kernel 2.6.37 and videocard nVidia GeForce 6200. Version of driver is 260.19.
X.org server said:
Code:

(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 260.19.36 <date>
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(--) using VT number 7

(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
    no screens found

nvidia-settings said:
Code:

ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run `nvidia-settings --help` for usage information.

lspci said:
Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)

Piece of xorg.conf:
Code:

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "Monitor0"
   VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
   ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Card0"
   Driver      "nvidia"
   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "Screen0"
   Device     "Card0"
   Monitor    "Monitor0"
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     1
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     4
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     8
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     15
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     16
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     24
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Version of X.org server is 1.9.5.
Please help me!


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ultraincognito


type:

lspci -k

to see if your gpu is using a module

and try to rename your xorg.conf to see if you can start x without a xorg.conf file.now a days you dont need a conf file
if you dont use a bin driver
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hedmo wrote:

lspci -k

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)
   Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 343c
   Kernel modules: nvidia

hedmo wrote:

and try to rename your xorg.conf to see if you can start x without a xorg.conf file.now a days you dont need a conf file
if you dont use a bin driver

I tried but it did not help.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also I noticed that files
/dev/nvidiactl
/dev/nvidia0
do not exist.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you don't have /dev/nvidia* then udev is probably not running, add it the the boot (or sysinit, I'm not sure where exactly it belongs) runlevel and reboot.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gusar wrote:
If you don't have /dev/nvidia* then udev is probably not running, add it the the boot (or sysinit, I'm not sure where exactly it belongs) runlevel and reboot.

Your advice helped me. X.org server started well. Thanks!
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