Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-legacy-drivers problems/questions
Mark, just a note I am quite happy with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 working perfectly on oldy MX 440, because legacy drivers too much legacy and are no good with both X session switching and GL while 1.0.9631 just crash and 1.0.9742 do not support the card anymore. Since it is probably the last version which will ever work on MX440 at all I suggest to make a backup of the ebuild just in case it will fade from portage in he future. (Sorry for top posting, but original is too long and epic for me to snap details) Petr On Tuesday 19 December 2006 02:39, Mark Knecht wrote: 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 :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/0R+ 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
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-legacy-drivers problems/questions
On 12/18/06, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 21:52, Mark Knecht wrote: The commands are unclear to me in the sense that I may need to rebuild the kernel, or not, after running them. I cannot tell. Any idea? Well, before running make oldconfig, you should copy the .config file from the kernel you used just before this one (2.6.16-gentoo-r12 possibly?) to /usr/src/linux. make oldconfig will then create a new .config based on your previous settings for the new kernel. I don't know what make prepare does... someone else want to pick that one up? R Randy, I ran the commands, rebuilt the kernel, rebooted, etc., then attempted to emerge nvidia-legacy-drivers again. I got the same message. None the less I found the problem. Somehow in the gcc-4.1.1, emerge -e world gdm was removed from the system. Don't ask me why. I re-emerged gdm and everything is working now. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nvidia-legacy-drivers problems/questions
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 :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/0R+ 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
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-legacy-drivers problems/questions
On Monday 18 December 2006 21:52, Mark Knecht wrote: The commands are unclear to me in the sense that I may need to rebuild the kernel, or not, after running them. I cannot tell. Any idea? Well, before running make oldconfig, you should copy the .config file from the kernel you used just before this one (2.6.16-gentoo-r12 possibly?) to /usr/src/linux. make oldconfig will then create a new .config based on your previous settings for the new kernel. I don't know what make prepare does... someone else want to pick that one up? R -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
