View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
TheUNabeefer n00b
Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Chicago, IL
|
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Mine works fine except for some annoying flickering that happens every.... ohhhh..... 13 seconds or so. Did anyone ever figure out how to rid of the flickering?!?! (it's been haunting me since I switched to 2.6.6)
.....I'm sure it was covered in another thread, but I have yet to find a thread that ACTUALLY solved it. Any help would be appreciated. _________________ There he was, reigning supreme at number two...
The One, The Only, The Unabeefer.
...I am a flying cow.... worship me or DIE!!! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
lightlysleepy n00b
Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Los Angeles, CA
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
yuza Apprentice
Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 210 Location: Rome, in front of my comp...
|
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
TheUNabeefer:
If your problem is similar to this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=185059&highlight=
It's a hardware cursor problem. The workaround is putting
Code: |
Option "HWCursor" "off"
Option "SWCursor" "on"
|
in the device section in your XF86Config (or xorg.conf).
I've just installed the new driver... works like a charm here with ck4 sources and 4k stack |
|
Back to top |
|
|
josephoenix n00b
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Happy Linux-Land
|
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Uhh... Do I have to use a custom ebuild to get my nvidia drivers to work? I just did emerge sync and then emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (latest versions)... And if I do have to use custom ebuilds, where do I get them?
Thanks!
josePhoenix _________________ Current attempts to learn languages:
PHP (and MYSQL) - 20%
C++ - 30%
BASIC - 100% (We all have to start somewhere) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
lightlysleepy n00b
Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Los Angeles, CA
|
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
josephoenix wrote: | Uhh... Do I have to use a custom ebuild to get my nvidia drivers to work? I just did emerge sync and then emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (latest versions)... And if I do have to use custom ebuilds, where do I get them?
Thanks!
josePhoenix |
The ebuilds are already in portage. Follow the steps shown here
http://reviewed.homelinux.org/gentoo/ebuilds/index.html.en#toc3
After you have made the portage package from the ebuild, emerge the new driver as usual:
If you don't have the make.conf configured to accept masked packages, you will end up with the older version. To bypass this, simply type:
Code: | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nvidia-glx |
You shouldn't have to emerge nvidia-kernel since it is a dependency of nvidia-glx. Also, the given keyword doesn't have a straight dash in front. It's a ~
Hope it works. _________________ Compact Space |
|
Back to top |
|
|
JinxterX n00b
Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 59
|
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 1:18 am Post subject: |
|
|
I did some tests:
Code: | Glxgears:
Driver NvAgp Agpgart Agpgart+VIA support
43.63 3975 2947 3975
44.96 3700 - 3700
46.20 3703 - 3703
53.28 3551 - 3551
61.06 3575 3119 3575
RTCW (800x600x16, Checkpoint demo):
43.63 129 108 129
44.96 131 - 131
46.20 132 - 132
53.28 100 - 100
61.06 100 89 100
All results are in frames per second.
- means I couldn't be bothered.
Test rig: AthlonXP 2600+, KT400, 512M DDR, GF4Ti4200 64M
dev-sources 2.6.7, xorg-x11 |
Best to stick with 4x.xx series for 3D gaming then |
|
Back to top |
|
|
josephoenix n00b
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Happy Linux-Land
|
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:59 am Post subject: |
|
|
lightlysleepy wrote: | josephoenix wrote: | Uhh... Do I have to use a custom ebuild to get my nvidia drivers to work? I just did emerge sync and then emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (latest versions)... And if I do have to use custom ebuilds, where do I get them?
Thanks!
josePhoenix |
The ebuilds are already in portage. Follow the steps shown here
http://reviewed.homelinux.org/gentoo/ebuilds/index.html.en#toc3
After you have made the portage package from the ebuild, emerge the new driver as usual:
If you don't have the make.conf configured to accept masked packages, you will end up with the older version. To bypass this, simply type:
Code: | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nvidia-glx |
You shouldn't have to emerge nvidia-kernel since it is a dependency of nvidia-glx. Also, the given keyword doesn't have a straight dash in front. It's a ~
Hope it works. |
I have emerged both packages... The problem I'm having is not gtting the divers emerged but that after modprobeing, not doing anything afterward, not having x.org running, no nothing! The thing just locks up, the cursor keeps blinking but it doesn't respond to anything. not the mouse, not the keyboard. o_O
Cany you help with that?
josePhoenix _________________ Current attempts to learn languages:
PHP (and MYSQL) - 20%
C++ - 30%
BASIC - 100% (We all have to start somewhere) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
TheUNabeefer n00b
Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Chicago, IL
|
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:31 am Post subject: |
|
|
yuza wrote: | TheUNabeefer:
If your problem is similar to this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=185059&highlight=
It's a hardware cursor problem. The workaround is putting
Code: |
Option "HWCursor" "off"
Option "SWCursor" "on"
|
in the device section in your XF86Config (or xorg.conf).
I've just installed the new driver... works like a charm here with ck4 sources and 4k stack |
hmmm.... nope. still flickers. It doesn't quite go back to the console.... just flickers in the same manner as if the power was surging.... but I know that isn't the case.
Uhm, if anyone wants to try helping or thinks they may have some crazy idea that may possibly fix it, feel free to message me (AIM: TheUnabeefer) .... so as to not clutter this thread with my petty problems. =O) _________________ There he was, reigning supreme at number two...
The One, The Only, The Unabeefer.
...I am a flying cow.... worship me or DIE!!! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
dalek Veteran
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: Mississippi USA
|
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:15 am Post subject: |
|
|
[rant what your step here. I'm pissed. Question to follow rant though.]
I must say I'm a bit pissed. I did a emerge -U world and it updated the nvidia drivers. I thought well, why not restart the GUI and put them to use. Oh hell no. I type in kdm and it comes right back with no error message or nothing.
I search around here and see you guys talking about the 4K stack thing. I look and mine is not included. Recompile my kernel. That ain't so bad though.
Here is what pissed me off though. I had to reboot. I had almost three weeks of uptime here. I didn't even shut down during a recent storm. Now I have this:
Code: | root@smoker /etc # uptime
05:07:58 up 12 min, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.15, 0.15
root@smoker /etc #
|
Ooooooo I'm pissed.
[/rant. I'm done now. still pissed]
Is that the reason for my problem? The error log shows "no usable screens found" and it wouldn't load the Nvidia module. It worked before. It works now. The only change was the 4K stack thing. Since I lost my uptime, will this make me run faster with the 4K thing or what?
I hope this makes something better. That may help my feeling a bit, not much but some anyway.
_________________ My rig: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P mobo, AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core CPU, ZALMAN CNPS10X Performa CPU cooler,
G.SKILL 32GB DDR3 PC3 12800 Memory Nvidia GTX-650 video card LG W2253 Monitor
60TBs of hard drive space using LVM
Cooler Master HAF-932 Case |
|
Back to top |
|
|
bammbamm808 Guru
Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii
|
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:17 am Post subject: So far so good here |
|
|
2.6.7-ck4 w/hid polling patch for smootha mouze & 4k stacks (theyere all the rage!)
nvidia 6106
NF7-S v2.0, AXP 2400m @ 205x11
GFFX5800XT 128MB
XFree 4.3
KDE 3.2
1280x1024x24bits
Never had any luck EMERGING my nvidia drivers, so I just used the nvidia installer. No problems so far. The only gotcha with the new kernel (was on 2.6.2) is that they changed the damn hid module to usbhid so I had to recompile to get X to work. _________________ MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk
Ryzen 3900x
32Gb Samsung B-die (16GB dual rank x2) DDR4 @ 3200MHz, cl14
Geforce RTX 2070S 8GB
Samsung m.2 NVME pcie-3.0
Etc.... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
andyjeffries Apprentice
Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 196 Location: Stevenage, Herts, UK
|
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:23 am Post subject: |
|
|
Blowfishie wrote: | Found a fix for the access error on another thread:
Code: | FEATURES="-sandbox -usersandbox" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nvidia-glx |
Rebooting now... |
This fix worked for me too (but I was having the problem on nvidia-kernel).
However, it's a bit of a crap way for Gentoo to have to do this. Is there not a way of disabling sandbox and usersandbox in the ebuild or in an /etc/portage/package.features file (there isn't one listed in man portage). If not, shouldn't there be!!!! _________________ Developer of gPHPEdit
A8N-SLI/AMD X2 4800+/2GB Dual Channel/GF 7900GT OC |
|
Back to top |
|
|
MartinP n00b
Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 14
|
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
dalek:
You should not do that. Add packages you want to have unstable (~x86) or unmasked to /etc/portage/package.keywords resp. package.unmask. Read man portage to find out how.
emerge -U world will sooner or later break your system. One shouldn't type "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge sth" at all, rather add the package to package.keywords.
Its probably unrelated but it _might_ be the reason for your problems. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Diovanti n00b
Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 63
|
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:44 am Post subject: |
|
|
Does anyone know if they've finally fixed overscan yet? I'm still stuck using 4363 |
|
Back to top |
|
|
dalek Veteran
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: Mississippi USA
|
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:19 am Post subject: |
|
|
MartinP wrote: | dalek:
You should not do that. Add packages you want to have unstable (~x86) or unmasked to /etc/portage/package.keywords resp. package.unmask. Read man portage to find out how.
emerge -U world will sooner or later break your system. One shouldn't type "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge sth" at all, rather add the package to package.keywords.
Its probably unrelated but it _might_ be the reason for your problems. |
I did add the packages to the proper files. Emerge -U world was sort of a temp thing.
I was mostly pissed that the new driver 'required' me to redo my kernel. That sucked.
It works. Still lost my uptime.
Later
_________________ My rig: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P mobo, AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core CPU, ZALMAN CNPS10X Performa CPU cooler,
G.SKILL 32GB DDR3 PC3 12800 Memory Nvidia GTX-650 video card LG W2253 Monitor
60TBs of hard drive space using LVM
Cooler Master HAF-932 Case |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Macguyvok n00b
Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 54 Location: ....right behind you....
|
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:33 am Post subject: |
|
|
Hmm, I haven't had a good deal of sucess with the latest drivers. 3D performance was ok, however my refresh rate was all screwed up. At 1280x1024 in Never Winter Nights the refresh rate was so bad it looked like there were horizontal black lines. It was aweful. The only resolution I got a decent refresh rate with was 1400x1050... and the game ran too slow @ that res (low fps)
FYI: I have a FX5200.
I don't know why the refresh rate was messed up, but it works fine with 53.36. _________________ --Mac
"The DM is GOD!" No.... God's just my little NPC
Coconut falls from sky... Take 2 points damage! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
calhoun Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 91 Location: Point Pleasant, NJ
|
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yea!! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Frodg l33t
Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 761
|
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:42 am Post subject: |
|
|
I need help.. (previously posted in the other gamers thread for nvidia).... (is this therefore a double post even though there was no resolution ???)
I have installed these new nvidia drivers, installed nvidia-glx, updated gl and got the basic sytem working but:
I get this message with glxgears, ,
xfe,
xscreensaver,
and several other apps.......
Code: |
error while loading shared libraries: libnvidia-tls.so.1: cannot handle TLS data |
This has been raised for ut but not as a general issue. I have scanned forums, read bug reports in gentoo, read linux.org forums and the general consensus is that you run:
Code: |
nvidia-installer --force-TLS=classic | when installing the drivers....
In gentoo the ebuild does not installl the nvidia-installer, nor can I see a way of passing this option in the ebuild...
I hope that explains the issue, I have been working on this for a couple of days on and off because my main apps ( xorg , firefox, Thunderbird, fluxbox.... etc...) all work
Any ideas ? _________________ Aerosolo ergo sum - I spray therefore I am
Gentoo - Registered Linux User # 361400 |
|
Back to top |
|
|
theJPster n00b
Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 32 Location: East Midlands, UK
|
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject: Overscan! |
|
|
Typical. They would fix the overscan problem just as I move house and no longer have a TV by my PC!
I did loop some S-Video cable between my MX440SE and my PVR-250 capture card to see what the nvidia-settings program could do with my TV out. Sure enough, the TV-output changed size as I altered the Overscan option. No more editing XFree86Config, restarting X, checking the output and repeating ad nauseum...
Previous to these 6x.xx drivers, I hadn't had TV overscan correction working since way back. I don't think their drivers liked the integrated TV encoders on the GeForce4 MX chips.
On the down side, with TV-out enabled and framebuffer consoles, you still get vaguely-character-shaped garbage if you try to switch VTs back to a text (well, framebuffer) one from X. Quite annoying that. Still, overall a thumbs up for the 6x.xx series.
theJPster
PS: Kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 with agpgart, SiS 746 chipset. _________________ theJPster |
|
Back to top |
|
|
lbermude n00b
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 5
|
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 4:38 am Post subject: |
|
|
Hey there
I am trying to install a working nvidia driver. I am using kernel 2.6.7. I disabeled the 4k in the kernel, did the emerge nvidia-glx, emerge nvidia-kernel, opengl-update nvidia but I still have the "no screens available" error.
I started checking on my system and found out that my nvidia driver is the:
media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4496-r2
and
media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3
How do I upgrade the driver to 6106 or 5336?
I am still strugling a little bit with all this 'emerge'ing... which brings up another question:
is there something like synaptic(debian) in gentoo?
thanks _________________ Leonardo |
|
Back to top |
|
|
radonsg Apprentice
Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 257 Location: Singapore
|
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:31 am Post subject: |
|
|
lbermude wrote: | Hey there
I am trying to install a working nvidia driver. I am using kernel 2.6.7. I disabeled the 4k in the kernel, did the emerge nvidia-glx, emerge nvidia-kernel, opengl-update nvidia but I still have the "no screens available" error.
I started checking on my system and found out that my nvidia driver is the:
media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4496-r2
and
media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3
How do I upgrade the driver to 6106 or 5336?
I am still strugling a little bit with all this 'emerge'ing... which brings up another question:
is there something like synaptic(debian) in gentoo?
thanks |
If u wan a specific version, do a Code: | emerge =example-1.2.3 |
There's also something like synaptic(debian) u might wan to take a look. But I personally don't use it so cannot say how gd izzit. http://remerge.sourceforge.net./ _________________ Athlon64 3000+ on a MSI Neo2 Platinum (nVidia nForce3)
1 Sata Hitachi (HGST) 7K250
1 Sata Samsung SpinPoint
2 x 512MB TwinMos DDR400 Dual Channel
Geforce 5200 |
|
Back to top |
|
|
s_ridenour n00b
Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4
|
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 8:13 am Post subject: |
|
|
Ibermude: 4496 is the latest "stable" nVidia drivers. Later drivers work just as well (and support newer cards), but have horribly broken ebuilds.
And if you've got a GeForce 6800, in order to use all of that card's features you need a 6xxx driver, such as the 6106. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
drescherjm Advocate
Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 2790 Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
neopablo2000 n00b
Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 65
|
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
LLoydBates wrote: | Problem when trying to emerge it, any ideas?
Code: | [root@udo.edu /home/lloyd]$ emerge nvidia-kernel
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6106 to /
x86
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run
x86
x86
>>> Unpacking source...
* /usr/src/linux is a symbolic link
* Determining the real directory of the Linux kernel source code
* Building for Linux 2.6.7-gentoo-r5 found in /usr/src/linux
* which outputs to /usr/src/linux
* By not using the kernel's ability to output to an alternative
* directory, some external module builds may fail.
* See <insert link to user doc here>
Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-6106............................................................................
........................................................................................
......................................
* Applying NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6106-koutput-support.patch... [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
x86
If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure
you either have configured kernel sources matching your
kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed
on your system.
If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure
you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel
installed on your system.
make: *** [select_makefile] Fehler 1
!!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6106 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 87, Exitcode 2
!!! Failed to build module
|
i have linux header 2.6.7-r1 installed
(Info: it's a duron, BIOS is to old to know it's name but it work perfectly)
Code: | [root@udo.edu /home/lloyd]$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r5 i686 Unknow CPU Type
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/k de/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ ftp:/ /ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pu b/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bo chum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erla ngen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga divx4linux dvd dvdr encode esd foomat ic foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java javascript joystick jpeg libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mmx2 motif moznoirc mpeg ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib p erl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truety pe usb x86 xface xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" |
|
Add the following lines to your /etc/portage/package.keywords (if it doesn`t existe, create it) before emerging nvidia-glx:
media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86
media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86
x11-base/opengl-update ~x86
After that, you should be installing without problems. Good Luck!! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|