-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Budd, Tracy wrote: > Yes. I have the nvidia driver built, and it loads using modprobe.
I still think you might be confusing the kernel module, using modprobe to load, with the X11 driver (you need both) which is named (as I wrote below) nvidia_drv.so. You do not use modprobe to load the X11 driver. Looking at your included xorg.conf, you have nv loaded in X11, not nvidia. Wrong item. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck Robey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 7/26/2008 3:03 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer > work > > Budd, Tracy wrote: >> xorg.conf below. Note that driver changed to nv in order to run X. >> If I try to use "nvidia" I get a blank screen and the machine locks. >> I checked the Xorg.0.log file and the machine seems to have died before >> it wrote anything. >> Suggestions appreciated. > > You realize that the nvidia driver doesn't come wtih X, you need to build it > separately? You have a nvidia_drv.so? The nv comes by default, but > it's a much > lesser tool. > >> -Tracy > >> Section "ServerLayout" >> Identifier "X.org Configured" >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" >> EndSection > >> Section "Files" >> RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" >> EndSection > >> Section "Module" >> Load "glx" >> Load "extmod" >> Load "dbe" >> Load "record" >> Load "GLcore" >> Load "xtrap" >> #Load "dri" >> Load "wfb" >> Load "freetype" >> Load "type1" >> EndSection > >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Keyboard0" >> Driver "kbd" >> EndSection > >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Mouse0" >> Driver "mouse" >> Option "Protocol" "auto" >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" >> EndSection > >> Section "Monitor" >> Identifier "Monitor0" >> VendorName "Monitor Vendor" >> ModelName "Monitor Model" >> EndSection > >> Section "Device" >> ### Available Driver options are:- >> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", >> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" >> ### [arg]: arg optional >> #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] >> #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] >> #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] >> #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] >> #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>] >> #Option "Rotate" # [<str>] >> #Option "VideoKey" # <i> >> #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>] >> #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>] >> #Option "CrtcNumber" # <i> >> #Option "FPScale" # [<bool>] >> #Option "FPTweak" # <i> >> #Option "DualHead" # [<bool>] >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "nv" >> VendorName "nVidia Corporation" >> BoardName "Unknown Board" >> BusID "PCI:5:0:0" >> EndSection > >> Section "Screen" >> Identifier "Screen0" >> Device "Card0" >> Monitor "Monitor0" >> SubSection "Display" >> Viewport 0 0 >> Depth 16 >> EndSubSection >> SubSection "Display" >> Viewport 0 0 >> Depth 24 >> EndSubSection >> EndSection > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiLj08ACgkQz62J6PPcoOnJeACggjgfOJC4v+p58oF1qQXgdJDa SzEAoJSxtz9VOddWKqhGnjr37tlgF4nF =wbaP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
