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
