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Rolf007
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 Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 12:31 pm Post subject: Can't start x. nVidia device not found |
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Hi all,
I've been stuggling with this for a long time now, and really need you help.
I emerge'd world for the first time in about 100 days and realized that I was not able to reboot because CONFIG_DEVTMPFS was now required to be set to 'y' in my kernel. Unfortunately the makefile from my kernel 3.0.6 had mysteriously disappeard.
So I installed the newest kernel 3.8.13 but I had to configure it.
When I try to start x, `startx` i get this:
| Code: | modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
NVIDIA: failed to load the NVIDIA kernel modul.
Fatal server error:
no screens found |
I would expect modprobe to look here:
| Code: | | /lib/modules/3.8.13-gentoo/kernel/drivers/ |
an no wonder, all I see here is
| Code: | | gpu/drm/gma500/gam500_fx.ko |
Could that be my problem?
I followed the guide from here
| Code: | | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml |
So I have set this is the kernel config
| Code: | Device Drivers --->
Graphics support --->
<*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) --->
<*> Nouveau (nVidia) cards |
and this in my make.conf:
| Code: | | VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia" |
(unchanged from when it worked)
I should also mention that I moved my make.conf from /etc/ to /etc/portage/.
my graphics card is a NVIDIA GT218
My question is where do I go from here? I think I have tried everything now. |
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gerard27
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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The nVidia driver has to be installed separately.
Just do | Code: | | emerge nvidia-drivers |
Gerard.
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Rolf007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I have already done that... |
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Rolf007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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lsmod show this:
| Code: | Module Size Used by
jme 31911 0 |
which also looks wrong to me... |
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Rolf007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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/var/log/Xorg.0.log say this:
| Code: | (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Unloading nvidia
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
(EE) No drivers available. |
If "system's kernel log" means `dmesg`, then it says:
| Code: | NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter probed!
NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s)
NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as nouveau, rivafb,
NVRM: nvidiafb, or rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of
NVRM: he NVIDIA device(s)
NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
NVRM: driver(s)), the try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
NVRM: again. |
Not sure what that means, but I will try. |
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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The nvidia-drivers package (among others) is external to the kernel source. When you build a new kernel, you must re-emerge nvidia-drivers. There's a handy set to rebuild exactly what's needed: | Code: | | emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild |
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Rolf007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks a lot Gerard and John,
It turned out that the problem was that I nvidia in both my kernel and the emerged ones.
I removed kernel support for nouveau (nVidia) and then it worked. Only took 22 hours to figure that out :oops: |
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augury
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| Remove the Nouveau from your kernel config entirely (unless you like to suck, no offence). Vesa graphics support is ok but nothing else. The nvidia driver will be in /lib/modules/{kernel version}/drivers. You may need to "modprobe nvidia". |
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augury
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| Oh yeah you got that. WTG! Mark this solved. |
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