On 10/27/05, Bob Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: renna bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 1:01 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module > > hi to all. i am finalizing a fresh new gentoo installation. i'm having some > problems with xorg and my nvidia geforce mx 440 card. i followed the > instructions on the dedicated part of documentation on gentoo.org, and even > tried the following commands as proposed by gentoo-wiki.com but i allways > get > the same error > > #emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx nvidia-settings > #opengl-update nvidia > #modprobe nvidia > #X -configure > #X -config /root/xorg.conf.new > > but i allways get this (from /var/log/Xorg.0.log) > > > (II) Setting vga for screen 0. > (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 8, (==) framebuffer bpp 8 > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is PseudoColor > (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF0000000 > (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xEE000000 > (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 > > Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support > at http://wiki.X.Org > for help. > Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional > information. > > > portage installed me diffferent versions of nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel > (1.0.6629-r6 and 1.0.6629-r4) should i install the same version? are there > newer versions available, or are these known not to work? right now i'm > using > the nv driver, and i have everything i need (kde) working, though i'd like > to > set up my nvidia card to its full capabilities > thanks > I'm ran into the exact same problem on a newly installed dual Opteron system > yesterday. Basically it's a broken nvidia ebuild. There was a thread on this > forum about this exact issue a couple of weeks ago. The "solution" is to > emerge the masked versions of the nvidia-kernel. To see what versions are > available you can: > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -sv nvidia > Then umask the specific version of the packages you want to use: > #echo '=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 ~x86' > >>/etc/portage/package.keywords > #echo '=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 ~x86' > >>/etc/portage/package.keywords > > Assuming your running x86 of course, otherwise replace "~x86" with the > appropiate value for your arch. > HTH, > Bob Young
Hmmm, I'm running nvidia-kernel 6629-r4 and nvidia-glx 6629-r6 on a amd64 system without any problems. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
