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From: sean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg with nvidia driver problems
I followed the instructions to get the nvidia driver working on my
system here, but obviously since I am writing, it is giving me problems.
Information below, and thanks in advance for the help.
Sean
Here is the error when I try to start with the 'nvidia' driver.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
tardis sean # uname -a
Linux tardis 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 #4 SMP Thu Oct 27 14:26:00 EDT 2005 x86_64
AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
It's a problem between the 2.6.13 kernel's changes to udev and the nvidia
kernel module.
Thread from another user who experienced the problem.
http://www.usenetlinux.com/archive/topic.php/t-495527.html
The bug on it posted in Gentoo bugzilla:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104369
More info:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
For me, updating the nvidia kernel and glx modules to more recent, though
masked as unstable, versions resolved the problem. There are other work
arounds and solutions in the above links.
HTH,
Bob Young
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