Xorg not recognizing graphics card [SOLVED]

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Kadath · Post by **Kadath** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:23 pm

I just installed gentoo on a spare computer, (due to my main being broken) and no matter what i try X11 crashes with "No devices detected".

I have a Nvidia 6800; relevant lspci:
http://pastebin.ca/2069608

My xorg.conf:
http://pastebin.ca/2069609

Xorg crash log:
http://pastebin.ca/2069611

when replacing "nvidia" with "fbdev" in xorg.conf, x11 works. Not "vesa" though.
Tried downgrading the kernel & nvidia-drivers a release, to no improvement.

Please help! "links" in terminal mode is getting somewhat annoying

cach0rr0 · Post by **cach0rr0** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:26 pm

possible to chunk your kernel .config up on pastebin?

Kadath · Post by **Kadath** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:33 pm

cach0rr0 wrote:possible to chunk your kernel .config up on pastebin?

Hm. Give me a sec to do that.

Kadath · Post by **Kadath** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:38 pm

I didn't need to chop it up (i think...!)

http://pastebin.ca/2069625

cach0rr0 · Post by **cach0rr0** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:39 pm

Kadath wrote: Hm. Give me a sec to do that.

Code: Select all

emerge wgetpaste
wgetpaste /usr/src/linux/.config

(just in case you weren't aware of that already and had some long complicated way of doing it planned

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Gusar · Post by **Gusar** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:55 pm

Are you sure the graphic card is at PCI:1:0:0? Have you tried with a minimal xorg.conf, containing just the Device section? Is the nvidia module loaded, and if not, does dmesg say anything interesting when you attempt to load it?

Kadath · Post by **Kadath** » Thu May 26, 2011 9:05 pm

Gusar wrote:Are you sure the graphic card is at PCI:1:0:0? Have you tried with a minimal xorg.conf, containing just the Device section? Is the nvidia module loaded, and if not, does dmesg say anything interesting when you attempt to load it?

It doesn't work even with PCI:1:0:0 removed. I think xorg.conf has nothing to do with the problem actually, due to the fact that X -configure fails with "no devices to configure" even when there's no xorg.conf.

Nvidia module is loaded (you can see that it gets loaded in the xorg crash log).

dmesg when i reload it with modprobe: http://pastebin.ca/2069638

dmpogo · Post by **dmpogo** » Thu May 26, 2011 9:09 pm

I don't think 6800 is supported by newest nvidia drivers (they drop support for older chips as they progress). Install nvidia-drivers-173.x.x

Kadath · Post by **Kadath** » Thu May 26, 2011 9:14 pm

dmpogo wrote:I don't think 6800 is supported by newest nvidia drivers (they drop support for older chips as they progress). Install nvidia-drivers-173.x.x

Tried 173.14.30, didn't work.

Also, nvidias driver download page tells me that the 6-series is supported.

Kadath · Post by **Kadath** » Thu May 26, 2011 9:41 pm

Ah, i fixed it myself.

Turned out udev wasn't started at boot, and that's why x11 couldn't find the card.

Regardless, thank you for your help!

dmpogo · Post by **dmpogo** » Fri May 27, 2011 4:35 pm

Kadath wrote:Ah, i fixed it myself.

Turned out udev wasn't started at boot, and that's why x11 couldn't find the card.

Regardless, thank you for your help!

That was easy, fortunately. I guess you can mark the topic as [Solved] (edit the subject line)