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Tweakin
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 Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:06 am Post subject: XOrg can't load NVidia |
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I have a problem. I just built up a new system and am having some issues getting xorg to use the nvidia kernel. I have nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, opengl-update, and xorg-x11 merged, I ran the xorgconfig and thne edited the config file to change nv to nvidia. I also added nvidia to modules.autoload.d, ran modprobe and modules-update. That's all the stuff I usually do and it usually just works. This time, though, I am getting (EE)'s about the nvidia module.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
The only thing different I have done durring this install (I have installed Gentoo dozens of times on many setups) is use genkernel. I have never used it and have a feeling it may be a weird kernel issue, but I am not 100% sure.
Anyone have any thoughts? |
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TheWitePony
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Make sure you emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx after you compiled your kernel.
Did you modprobe nvidia?
Have you tried this as well, after doing the above?
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opengl-update nvidia
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drhanus
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:59 am Post subject: Re: XOrg can't load NVidia |
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I bet the device nodes are missing. Check
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Tweakin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: XOrg can't load NVidia |
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| TheWitePony wrote: | Make sure you emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx after you compiled your kernel.
Did you modprobe nvidia?
Have you tried this as well, after doing the above?
| Code: | | opengl-update nvidia |
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Yes to all of the above.
| drhanus wrote: | I bet the device nodes are missing. Check
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Hmm, seems like a problem.
'No such file or directory.'
How should I get around this? I tried remerging everything again with no luck. |
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paul555
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same problem i solved it by emerging the version of the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx
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Tweakin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| paul555 wrote: | | I had the same problem i solved it by emerging the version of the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx |
I gave that a try, it increased the error output to this...
| Code: | Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 7.1.0, but
this X module is version 1.0.7676. Please be sure that your kernel
module and all NVIDIA driver files have the same driver version.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. |
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FranZ
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Try | Code: | | /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh |
. It did the job for me.
Cheerio
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Tweakin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| FranZ wrote: | Try | Code: | | /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh |
. It did the job for me.
Cheerio |
Hmmm, I don't seem to have that file, or any similair file in /sbin/. Clearly that's an issue |
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jonnevers
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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I just did a clean install of gentoo 2005.1 over the last weekend, with an nvidia 6600GT card.
I don't use genkernel so I'm not sure how applicable this is.
1) the default gentoo-sources right now is 2.6.13-gentoo-r1, this kernel source requires the ~x86 branch of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (version 7676 now i believe)
2) the default x86 branch of nvidia-kernel is 6629 still... just by emerging the stable portage tree with an nvidia card you are setting up a system that won't work out of the box, so to speak.
you'll need to
add nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx to /etc/portage/package.keywords
like:
| Code: | | echo "media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package/keyword |
do this for both packages. the ~x86 of these packages also requires that eselect and eselect-opengl are also installed, so they too much be added to the package.keywords file.
make sure that your currently running kernel matches the kernel sources version pointed to by /usr/src/linux
if that symlink is incorrect, emerging the drivers will typically fail either on modprobe or in xorg.
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Tweakin
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:01 am Post subject: |
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Well, after trying everyones suggestions and messing around myself for a day, I wasn't able to get it working. I completely reinstalled Gentoo (it was a fresh install) again and did not use genkernel. X is working fine now, and I had no problems. I did everything the same way, minus genkernel, so that leads me to believe there is something being included in genkernels kernel that the nvidia-kernel isn't playing nicely with.
Wish I could have gotten to the bottom of it, i hate leaving things open like that, but the system needs to be built and dropped into place tomorrow. |
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Shaocaholica
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| jonnevers wrote: | I just did a clean install of gentoo 2005.1 over the last weekend, with an nvidia 6600GT card.
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Im having the exact same problems with the nvidia driver. In gentoo and FC4. I kinda lost you at the part about keywords. Could you please elaborate on the correct way to install the nvidia 7676 drivers on 2005.1 with more detailed instructions/explainations. |
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krasnik
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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ok, here is what my solution was.
i installed the 1.0.6629-r4 Version of nvidia-driver and nvidia-glx. in this ebuild you will find /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh.
copy this to some other dir and emerge version 1.0.7676 of driver and glx.
after all this emerging is done run ${some other dir}/NVmakedevices.sh and everthing works best.
i don't know but with and emerge -sync and emerge --update --deep world i got a new udev version and it seems that it fix the problem too.
cheers,
krasnik |
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Shaocaholica
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| krasnik wrote: | ok, here is what my solution was.
i installed the 1.0.6629-r4 Version of nvidia-driver and nvidia-glx. in this ebuild you will find /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh.
copy this to some other dir and emerge version 1.0.7676 of driver and glx.
after all this emerging is done run ${some other dir}/NVmakedevices.sh and everthing works best.
i don't know but with and emerge -sync and emerge --update --deep world i got a new udev version and it seems that it fix the problem too.
cheers,
krasnik |
emerge 7676? I thought this wasn't in portage. Or do you mean install the 7676 drivers using the .run file as per nvidias instructions? |
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Sachankara
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Tweakin wrote: | | FranZ wrote: | Try | Code: | | /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh |
. It did the job for me.
Cheerio |
Hmmm, I don't seem to have that file, or any similair file in /sbin/. Clearly that's an issue |
| Code: | rmmod nvidia
mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0
modprobe nvidia
(Still have problems here?)
cd /usr/lib/modules/drivers/
ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o |
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krasnik
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Shaocaholica wrote: |
emerge 7676? I thought this wasn't in portage. Or do you mean install the 7676 drivers using the .run file as per nvidias instructions? |
no the 7676 drivers are in portage but they are masked.
but i would update the system first because of the new udev. i did the install on two different machines, one time with the script and the other after update of udev without. both are 7676 drivers and glx. i got the solution from googling one week  . |
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Shaocaholica
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks. Can you go over the entire process because its all new to me. Especially unmasking packages in portage. |
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krasnik
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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look on my postcounter, i am noob too . but i will have a try.
1) to start:
| Code: | | emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx |
2) next copy device creating script:
| Code: | | cp /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh ~/NVmakedevices.sh |
3) next is to unmask the packages, write this into /etc/portage/package.keywords
| Code: | =media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 ~x86
=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 ~x86 |
4) and emerge nvidia
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emerge nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 |
5) run device make script:
6) add the script your local startscript.
or if the update of udev realy works just do this (i dont read the changelog, i just saw that a new version was emerged):
| Code: | emerge -sync
emerge --update --deep world
echo "=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 |
as i said both, worked for me on two different pc's. i would try the udev thing first.
good luck,
krasnik
ps.: if someone can see crap in the things i wrote, correct me |
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Shaocaholica
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks a ton. I'll try it out when I get back in to work. |
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dmpogo
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Shaocaholica wrote: | | Thanks a ton. I'll try it out when I get back in to work. |
Without the devices it won't work - to have /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl is the must.
If you don't have a script with nvidia-kernel, you have to do it by hand
cd /dev
mknod nvidia0 c 195 0
mknod nvidiactl c 195 255
and then set them to be owned by root:video
chown root:video nvidia*
and permission to 666 or 660
chmod 666 nvidia*
Udev won't help, it can't handle nvidia devices due to changes in kernel side sysfs |
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StormChaserUK
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| Tweakin wrote: | | paul555 wrote: | | I had the same problem i solved it by emerging the version of the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx |
I gave that a try, it increased the error output to this...
| Code: | Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 7.1.0, but
this X module is version 1.0.7676. Please be sure that your kernel
module and all NVIDIA driver files have the same driver version.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. |
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I seem to be ahaving the same problem.
At first i got the "unable to initialise the module" error even with using NVmakedevices. I did the ~x86 emerge etc and now it installs fine, but i get the same error as above.
I have the relevent device nodes in /dev.
EDIT: SOLVED!!!!!
the glx modules are 7676-r2 and the kernel module is 7676-r1
remove the r2 glx module and emerge the r1 and it works fine
now to try it with a fbsplash  |
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lorenct
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:25 am Post subject: |
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Hmm... downgrading to nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 from r2 did not resolve this problem for me.
System configuration:
HP Kayak XU with Dual Pentium 3 550MHz CPUs
nVidia FX5200
Everything works fine with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 but once I go to gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2, nvidia falls over and cannot get up.
I get the message of not finding /dev/nvidia0 and failing to initialize, but I added /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh into /etc/conf.d/local.start.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
I even recompiled the 2.6.14-r2 kernel with CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=m from reading the following thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-375466-start-25-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-nvidia+module.html
The real bizarre thing is that I have another system:
System configuration:
Supermicro X5DAL-TG2 with Dual Pentium 4 XEON 2.8GHz
nVidia 6800OC
And this system has no problem with the nvidia driver loading and Xorg running like a champ with 2.6.14-r2. I do not even have the CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA module added to it.
So I am stuck right now with one sysetm staying at 2.6.12-r10 (even tried 2.6.13-r5 with failed results as well) until someone comes up with some answers as to why it works on some systems and not on others.
Thanks for all the information in the thread so far... at least it gave me something to try and play with.
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depontius
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| FranZ wrote: | Try | Code: | | /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh |
. It did the job for me.
Cheerio |
I bumped into this problem back at 2.6.13, but haven't had the time/inclination to really look at it until today. Actually, I'm prodded on by the gcc 3.4 upgrade of this past weekend. I like to stay close to the stable front, but I wasn't about to upgrade my compiler until I understood why the heck I couldn't move to a new kernel. After lamenting the inability to search for version strings with Gentoo Forums, I saw the idea of google with site:forums.gentoo.org (Doh!) and wound up on this thread, shortly.
So for my piece, I offer "/etc/init.d/nvidia":
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/coldplug/files/coldplug.rc,v 1.3 2005/01/28 12:20:20 wolf31o2 Exp $
depend() {
before xdm
}
start() {
# Create /dev/nvidia*, if necessary.
if [ -e /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh ]
then
ebegin "Running NVmakedevices.sh script"
/sbin/NVmakedevices.sh
eend $?
else
eerror "Script NVmakedevices.sh not found"
return 1
fi
}
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Rather obviously a plagerized "coldplug" script, but given that I don't use the udev tarball, it quite simply gets me my nVidia device nodes before xdm tries to start. A quick glance shows that NVmakedevices.sh only does the mknod if it needs to. I'm not quite sure how this would get done for text-mode login.
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Thx Sachankara, Ur' nifty little note trick, did it for me 
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Mgiese
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo-2005.1 with 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 , i had
Failed to load NVIDIA kernel... when starting X , i tried all available NVIDIA drivers but then my hint was just :
ls -l /dev/nvidia*
and "no such dir.."
so i just tried
/sbin/NVmakedevices.sh and everything is working FINE
thx
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Mgiese
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| Mgiese wrote: | gentoo-2005.1 with 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 , i had
Failed to load NVIDIA kernel... when starting X , i tried all available NVIDIA drivers but then my hint was just :
ls -l /dev/nvidia*
and "no such dir.."
so i just tried
/sbin/NVmakedevices.sh and everything is working FINE
thx |
but then ALL nvidia-kernel drivers are failing to install, even if they emerged fine before ...
so i just have the already installed nvidia-kernel-7174 with nvidia-glx-7174-r5 .... ?? so i dont know whats wrong now...
all drivers putting out this error :
WARNING : Symbol version dumb /usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r4/Module.symvers is missing: Modules will have no dependencies and modversion.
and then the merge crashes at this point :
/bin/sh : scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or dir...
PS : i can post later on the complete error (when firefox merge is done)
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