[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver-RESOLVED
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Mouse1 (WW) Disabling Keyboard1 LOL! It wasn't a crash. It just seemed like it because the mouse and kbd were disabled. Apparently, the above is the default!?!? The line 'Option AllowEmptyInput no' must be added to the server section of xorg.conf. BTW, what is the purpose of two module dirs /lib/modules/uname/video and /usr/lib/xorg/modules for the nvidia drivers. Are they both being used? Which is the correct one to use in xorg.conf? mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver-RESOLVED
On Monday 09 November 2009 06:59:34 Maxim Wexler wrote: (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Mouse1 (WW) Disabling Keyboard1 LOL! It wasn't a crash. It just seemed like it because the mouse and kbd were disabled. Apparently, the above is the default!?!? The line 'Option AllowEmptyInput no' must be added to the server section of xorg.conf. BTW, what is the purpose of two module dirs /lib/modules/uname/video This is a kernel module and /usr/lib/xorg/modules This is a userspace X module for the nvidia drivers. Are they both being used? Which is the correct one to use in xorg.conf? Two very different things -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
nvidia 0x10de 0x 0x 0x 0x0003 0x 0x0 nvidia 0x10de 0x 0x 0x 0x00030200 0x 0x0 The lines in my modules.pcimap are identical. FWIW, I mentioned previously that startx precipitated a total crash; not so, having installed the sound drivers it is clear that only X crashes and SysRq works to get me backto a console. Also, been reading the recent hal + nvidia thread. Definite similarities to my situation. I emerged xorg with hal support but I tried with the hal daemon off and it didn't help. I also tried the very brief, five line, xorg.conf file suggested no help, no change. I also note something eerily similar in my netbook which has only a builtin intel vid chip. In this case X starts fine but then, after a period of time, could be as short as 15 mins or as long as 8 hours the desktop goes blank, ususally black but once grey. I can migrate to the first console and turn off theX server but I have to reboot to get back to the desktop. Running startx again just leads back to a blank screen. Every thing else, sound card, wireless seems to work OK. mw
[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On 11/05/2009 01:17 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... I also note something eerily similar in my netbook which has only a builtin intel vid chip. In this case X starts fine but then, after a period of time, could be as short as 15 mins or as long as 8 hours the desktop goes blank, ususally black but once grey. I can migrate to the first console and turn off theX server but I have to reboot to get back to the desktop. Running startx again just leads back to a blank screen... There are definitely bugs in the intel video driver, as posted to the freedesktop.xorg mailing list: Release 2.9.1 (2009-10-26) == We are pleased to announce a maintenance release (2.9.1) of the xf86-video-intel driver. This release comes one month after 2.9.0 and consists only of a few, hand-picked bug fixes since that release. Thanks to everyone for your help in putting together a fine release. -Carl PS. If you want to nominate fixes for future 2.9.x releases, please do so at: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Intel29Branch Where to get xf86-video-intel 2.9.1 --- git tag: 2.9.1 http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.bz2 MD5: 8951d0366c16991badb7f9050556f4f3 xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.bz2 SHA1: ca5887df67ec46f27eeeaf8158048d6500333ccf xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.bz2 http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.gz MD5: b1926dc68cc10209fc2200729fb6162b xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.gz SHA1: a1810874c6bff487232cbea26ec02a45bbe6e9a2 xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.gz Complete list of fixes in 2.9.1 compared to 2.9.0 - * Fix corruption and artifacts due to wrong colors in the colormap with X server 1.7 * Fix incorrect rendering, such as missing scrollbar arrows in some themes (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24459) * Fix black screen when X server is reset (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24383) * Fix regressions detecting DVI monitors http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24255 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24282 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24458
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
There are definitely bugs in the intel video driver, as posted to the freedesktop.xorg mailing list: Release 2.9.1 (2009-10-26) Thanks. Just did an eix-sync followed by ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -v xf86-video-intel and the package cae down. Will see how it works. BTW how come package.mask doesn't like xf86-video-intel-2.9.1? I want to mask everything earlier than 2.9.1, no? mw
[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On 11/03/2009 06:10 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: I'm guessing that the xorg server couldn't load its 'nvidia' module because the nvidia kernel module wasn't loaded, so that's no surprise. Does modprobe -nv nvidia say anything interesting? kyzyl ~ # modprobe -nv nvidia insmod /lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=27 NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=1 NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=27 NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=1 FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): No such device Do you have /lib/modules/2.6.29/modules.pcimap? #head modules.pcimap # pci module vendor device subvendor subdevice class class_mask driver_data snd-via82xx 0x1106 0x3058 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x0 snd-via82xx 0x1106 0x3059 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x0 nvidia 0x10de 0x 0x 0x 0x0003 0x 0x0 nvidia 0x10de 0x 0x 0x 0x00030200 0x 0x0 uhci-hcd 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x000c0300 0x 0x0
[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On 11/02/2009 06:32 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): No such device ???lspci begs to differ groan I've never seen that error from nvidia, and I've seen lots of errors :o( Are you sure the nvidia module that was actually merged is the same version you thought you were merging? (I'm reduced to silly questions.) 173.14.20 was what emerge -pv called for and that's what's in /var/log/portage meanwhile attached greps of (EE) and (WW) in Xorg.0.log, FWIW The error in your Xlog uses the word 'module' in this sense: (II) LoadModule: nvidia (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so (II) Module nvidia: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Video Driver (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 173.14.20 Thu Jun 25 19:28:52 PDT 2009 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 0...@00:00:0 I'm guessing that the xorg server couldn't load its 'nvidia' module because the nvidia kernel module wasn't loaded, so that's no surprise. Does modprobe -nv nvidia say anything interesting?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
I'm guessing that the xorg server couldn't load its 'nvidia' module because the nvidia kernel module wasn't loaded, so that's no surprise. Does modprobe -nv nvidia say anything interesting? kyzyl ~ # modprobe -nv nvidia insmod /lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=27 NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=1 NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=27 NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=1 FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): No such device
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
Black screen, instant total system crash. Well, that suggests a kernel panic, I think. What happens if you use an older kernel? There is no older kernel. I knew there was something I forgot to save. But I saved xorg.conf and it's identical. The sysrecusecd finds the card and X starts fine. The only difference in the config is that on the CD CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=y and on the PC it's a module. So I set it to y. Didn't help. mw
[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On 11/02/2009 10:55 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Black screen, instant total system crash. Well, that suggests a kernel panic, I think. What happens if you use an older kernel? There is no older kernel. I knew there was something I forgot to save. But I saved xorg.conf and it's identical. You can compile one from an older source package and see if it helps. Just use the same kernel config you have now and do make oldconfig to remove any new config items.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
You can compile one from an older source package and see if it helps. Just use the same kernel config you have now and do make oldconfig to remove any new config items. Using linux-2.6.29. Changed symlink, re-emerged nvidia-drivers, ran #modprobe nvidia: FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): No such device ???lspci begs to differ
[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On 11/02/2009 01:45 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: You can compile one from an older source package and see if it helps. Just use the same kernel config you have now and do make oldconfig to remove any new config items. Using linux-2.6.29. Changed symlink, re-emerged nvidia-drivers, ran #modprobe nvidia: FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): No such device ???lspci begs to differ groan I've never seen that error from nvidia, and I've seen lots of errors :o( Are you sure the nvidia module that was actually merged is the same version you thought you were merging? (I'm reduced to silly questions.)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): No such device ???lspci begs to differ groan I've never seen that error from nvidia, and I've seen lots of errors :o( Are you sure the nvidia module that was actually merged is the same version you thought you were merging? (I'm reduced to silly questions.) 173.14.20 was what emerge -pv called for and that's what's in /var/log/portage meanwhile attached greps of (EE) and (WW) in Xorg.0.log, FWIW mw xlog-ee Description: Binary data xlog-ww Description: Binary data
[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On 11/01/2009 09:13 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group Having installed the Geforce FX5500 drivers, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.18-pkg1.run, and ran startx the desktop appears but the system crashes... Do you mean the entire system, or just the X server? #nvidia-settings -V ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run 'nvidia-settings --help' The nvidia-settings applet is an X program and thus requires a running X session. I assume you are running it from a console, since X crashes? If you type 'X' from a console (instead of startx) does the crash still happen?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On 11/1/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/01/2009 09:13 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group Having installed the Geforce FX5500 drivers, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.18-pkg1.run, and ran startx the desktop appears but the system crashes... Do you mean the entire system, or just the X server? Desktop(raw X, default terminals and clock icon) appears, instant total system crash If you type 'X' from a console (instead of startx) does the crash still happen? Black screen, instant total system crash. Oh, and the green nvidia icon fails to flash briefly after the startx command.
[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On 11/01/2009 02:36 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: On 11/1/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/01/2009 09:13 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group Having installed the Geforce FX5500 drivers, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.18-pkg1.run, and ran startx the desktop appears but the system crashes... Do you mean the entire system, or just the X server? Desktop(raw X, default terminals and clock icon) appears, instant total system crash If you type 'X' from a console (instead of startx) does the crash still happen? Black screen, instant total system crash. Well, that suggests a kernel panic, I think. What happens if you use an older kernel? Oh, and the green nvidia icon fails to flash briefly after the startx command. I use the same nvidia drivers for the nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] video card (given to me by my brother-in-law-the-gamer after I installed his new, upgraded nVidia card for him :o) For a long time I saw that same green nvidia logo flash during startup, but now that you mention it, I haven't seen it for a long time. I really don't know when it stopped, but it was weeks ago, not days.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
walt wrote: On 11/01/2009 02:36 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: On 11/1/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/01/2009 09:13 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group Having installed the Geforce FX5500 drivers, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.18-pkg1.run, and ran startx the desktop appears but the system crashes... Do you mean the entire system, or just the X server? Desktop(raw X, default terminals and clock icon) appears, instant total system crash If you type 'X' from a console (instead of startx) does the crash still happen? Black screen, instant total system crash. Well, that suggests a kernel panic, I think. What happens if you use an older kernel? Oh, and the green nvidia icon fails to flash briefly after the startx command. I use the same nvidia drivers for the nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] video card (given to me by my brother-in-law-the-gamer after I installed his new, upgraded nVidia card for him :o) For a long time I saw that same green nvidia logo flash during startup, but now that you mention it, I haven't seen it for a long time. I really don't know when it stopped, but it was weeks ago, not days. I was informed a while back that the later driver versions only show the Nvidia splash screen the first time the module is loaded or something like that. Basically you only see it once. That can be changed somehow but I can remember how they said to do it. I only asked because I thought my Nvidia drivers weren't loading. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver
On Monday 02 November 2009 05:11:45 Dale wrote: I was informed a while back that the later driver versions only show the Nvidia splash screen the first time the module is loaded or something like that. Basically you only see it once. That can be changed somehow but I can remember how they said to do it. I only asked because I thought my Nvidia drivers weren't loading. Option NoLogo boolean in xorg.conf -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
