nvidia woes

Freshly Ripped · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3

Hello all.

Last week I was experiencing some weirdness exiting from an X server. I was using the nvidia drivers and was successfully playing quake and seeing the splash screen, however upon exiting KDE my whole system would lock up.

Another thing I was notcing was that my liquid stile for KDE was broken, no fancy menus, etc...

Anyway, i thought I had read somewhere that re-emerging kdelibs would fix liquid so I thought I would give that a try first.

I'm not sure if it was that action or something else that I performed but as it stands my X server doesn't start when using the nvidia drivers anymore. I get a:

Cannot initialize the nvidia kernel

and a

no screens found.

(wonderful)

Anyway, can someone please tell me what fixes this, and/or point me in the right direction (?!).

I've tried rebooting (unsuccessfully)
opengl-update nvidia (unsuccessfully)
emerge nvidia-glx (unsuccessfully)
emerge nvidia-kernel (unsuccessfully)

and i've tried the above in every such imaginable order.

any guidance would be considered a godsend.

thanks.

Django · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 5:54 pm Post subject:

ISTR the nvidia driver used to have a problem with having the kernel set up for SMP...

I always de-select SMP on kernel re-compiles by habit now and I had no problems installing the nvidia drivers on my last two gentoo builds.

This also assumes you're on a single processor box...
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Django

Freshly Ripped · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3

I didn't recompile my kernel at all.

Freshly Ripped · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3

Does no one know how to get around this?

BackSeat · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 7:01 am Post subject:

Which version of nvidia-kernel? Version 3123 is broken and gives the error you are getting. Revert to 2960 if this is the case for you.

BS

Larde · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 10:07 am Post subject: