Proprietary drivers work fine with 3.2.1. Haven't tried 3.2.12. On Apr 18, 2012 5:09 PM, "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> I started a thread a while ago about looking for an accelerated video > card. I went and got an ASUS EN210 Silent PCIe card and followed the > instructions at the Gentoo Nouveau wiki. I have not been able to get X > running yet. Trying to launch X with startx blanks the screen, and I > can't get it back. Note that the machine does *NOT* lock up, rather the > video gets disabled until I reboot. I can ssh into the machine. It > appears to be working fine. If I... > > * start a root text console in TTY8 > * switch to TTY9 > * startx > > The screen goes blank and I can't get graphics or GUI, no matter what > I do. I can ssh in from another machine and things look OK. As a > matter of fact, I can {CTRL-ALT-F8} and blindly issue the command > "reboot" or "halt -p", and it gets executed. The attached Xorg.log file > shows nothing wrong. "Xorg -configure" does generate an xorg.conf.new > file, but screams about... > > ==================================================================== > (EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol > Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. > Configuration failed. > Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file. > ==================================================================== > > The Gentoo Nouveau wiki says that message comes either from disabling > DRI (which I didn't do) or from the wrong opengl. I only have the xorg > version. Any ideas? Do the proprietary Nvidia drivers work with kernel > 3.2.12? I'm running with mdev instead of udev. Would that make a > difference? > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> >