On 10/24/2011 10:51 AM, John Meissen wrote: >> It appears that the built-in video is bypassed when the nVidia card is >> installed in the PCIe slot. >> >> Any thoughts on what to do next? I could remove the nVidia card and get >> the built-in video back, but then what? > The install probably runs the nvidia config utility, which recreates the > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. It should have saved the original, if there was > one. So check that first. > > If there was one before, you check the differences. If there wasn't, you > can safely rename the new one to get it out of the way. The current X server > will run pretty well without any xorg.conf file.
Alas, there is no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. I was able to look at /var/log/messages. I extracted the lines that have "nVidia" in them. Do they show anything useful? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 24 09:54:48 moonguide kernel: [52844.031563] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. Oct 24 09:54:48 moonguide kernel: [52844.031569] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Oct 24 09:54:50 moonguide kernel: [52845.176270] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s). Oct 24 09:54:50 moonguide kernel: [52845.176277] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb or Oct 24 09:54:50 moonguide kernel: [52845.176280] NVRM: rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of the NVIDIA Oct 24 09:54:50 moonguide kernel: [52845.176282] NVRM: device(s). Oct 24 09:54:50 moonguide kernel: [52845.176287] NVRM: Try unloading the rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv kernel module Oct 24 09:54:50 moonguide kernel: [52845.176290] NVRM: (and/or reconfigure your kernel without rivafb/nvidiafb Oct 24 09:54:50 moonguide kernel: [52845.176292] NVRM: support), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module again. Oct 24 09:54:50 moonguide kernel: [52845.176296] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter probed! Oct 24 09:56:22 moonguide kernel: [ 11.970740] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. Oct 24 09:56:22 moonguide kernel: [ 11.970746] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Oct 24 09:56:23 moonguide kernel: [ 13.300633] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 Oct 24 09:56:23 moonguide kernel: [ 13.322208] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 Oct 24 09:56:23 moonguide kernel: [ 13.322236] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem Oct 24 09:56:23 moonguide kernel: [ 13.322768] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 195.36.24 Thu Apr 22 09:18:20 PDT 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the ideas. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
