On 01/05/2011 06:41 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote:
On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote:
I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems
somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there
shouldn't be too much of a problem there.
The graphics card as identified by the system is: nVidia Corporation NV36
[GeForce FX 5700LE]
The base system and xorg-x11 seems to be set up alright. However, when I run
startx as a regular
user I get errors about drm, dri, and dri2 modules and the screen.
Those drm and dri error messages are normal when using the nvidia drivers, but
the screen
error is not normal. What does it say, exactly? Did you generate your xorg.conf
by doing
Xorg -configure? Are you using an xorg.conf file at all?
The nouveau driver is not nearly ready for prime time yet, so I'd stick with
nivida-drivers
at least until you have everything else working.
I am not using the xorg.conf file
That's fine for starters. You may need to add one later if your mouse or
keyboard don't work.
(BTW, you need to emerge the xf86-input-evdev driver for the mouse and keyboard
if you don't
have an xorg.conf).
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Jan 5 09:03:31 2011
List of video drivers:
nouveau
nvidia
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/video/nvidia.ko):
No such device
That's definitely a problem. The "no such device" is a bit ambiguous. I'm
thinking maybe
the nouveau and nvidia drivers are fighting with each other, so neither one can
get full
control of the video hardware.
IIRC, if you build the nouveau driver into your kernel, it *will* conflict with
the nvidia
kernel module. I keep two different kernel config files, one with nouveau, and
the other
without nouveau for use with the nvidia.ko module.
Definitely build a kernel without nouveau at least until you get everything
else working --
and then *re*emerge nividia-drivers after you boot the new kernel.
(Compiling/installing
a new kernel will delete all of your existing kernel modules including
nvidia.ko!)
