Mark, just a note I am quite happy with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 working perfectly on oldy MX 440, because legacy drivers too much legacy and are no good with both X session switching and GL while 1.0.9631 just crash and 1.0.9742 do not support the card anymore. Since it is probably the last version which will ever work on MX440 at all I suggest to make a backup of the ebuild just in case it will fade from portage in he future.
(Sorry for top posting, but original is too long and epic for me to snap details) Petr On Tuesday 19 December 2006 02:39, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm doing updates to my dad's Gentoo machine 350 miles away. It > pretty much hasn't been touched in about a year as per his request. > However we agreed it was time to move forward so I've done the > gcc-4.1.1 upgrade and rebuilt the machine completely. At the command > line from here things look like they are running with the new kernel. > ivtv is up for MythTV recording. I don't know how to tell what state > his screen is in since he isn't home to look at it. However I seem to > be having problems with the NVidia drivers so I'm looking for some > help. > > When I first built the machine I installed nvidia-drivers. After > rebooting with the new 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 kernel nvidia was loaded but > got a message in dmesg telling me that the card is supported by > nvidia-legacy-drivers: > > <SNIP> > NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X GPU installed in this system is > NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA Legacy drivers. Please > NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more > NVRM: information. The 1.0-9742 NVIDIA driver will ignore > NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe... > NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found! > <SNIP> > > I then removed that NVidia package and emerged > nvidia-drivers-legacy. It seemed to emerge but I saw this message when > building it: > > <SNIP> > test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( > \ > echo; \ > echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ > echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or > include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\ > echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel > src to fix it."; \ > echo; \ > /bin/false) > <SNIP> > > However I think the driver does load as I see this at the end of dmesg: > > <SNIP> > Adding 1172264k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1172264k > eth0: setting full-duplex. > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 5 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNK4] -> GSI 5 (level, > low) -> IRQ 5 > NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-7184 Tue Aug 1 > 18:38:58 PDT 2006 > gandalf ~ # > <SNIP> > > The problem I seem to be having right now is with xdm. It stops OK, > but when I try to start it I get these messages: > > <SNIP> > gandalf ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm stop > * Stopping xdm ... > [ ok ] > gandalf ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm status > * status: stopped > gandalf ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm start > * Setting up xdm ... > /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory > (No such file or directory) > * ERROR: could not start the Display Manager... > xdm: no process killed > [ ok ] > gandalf ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm status > * status: started > gandalf ~ # > <SNIP> > > So it seems, from 350 miles away, that xdm is stopping and > starting, but I get error messages. What's up with that? > > What I'm really wondering right now is what is being displayed on > his screen? Is there a login window? Seems like maybe it's working: > > gandalf ~ # ps aux | grep xdm > root 11983 0.0 0.1 1604 524 pts/0 R+ 17:38 0:00 grep > --colour=auto xdm > gandalf ~ # > > but what is that error message above telling me? What else can I do > from here to investigate the state of this remote machine? > > Thanks in advance! > > Cheers, > Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
