Installed Nvidia driver, now kdm fails

[vorfeed]

I installed Gentoo last night, and had kdm up and running a while ago. However, my fonts were ugly, so I followed the instructions in the Desktop Guide for installing the Nvidia drivers, and then I followed the instructions in the forums for installing anti-aliased fonts.

Now kdm won't start.

When I start my X server (with "kdm"), I can see the Nvidia splash screen, and X starts okay (gives a grey screen with a pointer). Then, the screen disappears, and my monitor clicks several times, as if it's trying to switch modes. Then it drops me back to the prompt. I checked /var/log/Xfree86.0.log and /var/log/kdm.log, and they don't seem to contain any obvious errors. I also tried changing my XF86Config back to the way it was before, and commenting out the NVdriver line in /etc/modules.autoload, in hopes of somehow getting kdm back. Unfortunately, it didn't help. I can still run xdm, and I can still run xinit, but kdm just won't start.

Any suggestions? I'll try unmerging and emerging KDE later tonight, but that's a last resort, due to how long it takes to compile -_-;; If anyone has an idea on how I can fix this more easily, please post a reply. Thanks!

[thardy01]

Basicaly the same thing happened to me last night. Check and see what version opengl-update is merged if its 1.4 try unmergeing it then merge the old 1.3 this fixed mine.
Dont forget to run it after you merge it also if you would let me know if this works for you.

[vorfeed]

Thanks for the reply... I emerged back to opengl-update 1.3, but I still can't start kdm. I'll try again tomorrow morning, though, after I've had more sleep ^__^

I'm supposed to set it to use the nvidia drivers (opengl-update nvidia), right? It doesn't seem to help, I still get the same symptoms as before. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thnaks again for the help.

[bendy]

Have you made changes to your /etc/X11/Xftconfig file when setting up anti-aliasing?

I have had a similar problem in the past when I made (bad) changes to Xftconfig that caused apps using anti-aliasing (including kdm) to crash.

If you changed this file, try restoring a backup or comment out the changes you made.

If X can start, and there are no errors in the log file then it doesn't sound like an nvidia driver problem.

bendy.

[vorfeed]

OK, I tried deleting my changes in the /etc/X11/XftConfig and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/XftConfig files. It still doesn't work, but I agree with you that this is probably caused by the fonts and not the nvidia driver. So, I'm going to paste in my XftConfigs, and see if anyone can spot the problem.

/etc/X11/XftConfig
-----


#
# XftConfig
#
# Use with Type1 and TrueType fonts
#

# Note that each application scans all these directories
# during startup, so you may want to disable some to
# get better speed.

# Standard XFree86 Type 1 fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
# TTF fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
# User installed fonts
dir "/opt/ttfonts"
# URW fonts
dir "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
# Localized Truetype fonts
dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/big5"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/gb2312"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/japanese"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/korean"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/armenian"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/thai"
# don't yet exist, but i hope to include some day a package for them (Pablo)
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/cyrillic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/viet"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/ethiopic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/georgian"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/arabic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/hebrew"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/unicode"
# AbiSuite comes with URW fonts as well
dir "/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts"

#
# alias 'fixed' for 'mono'
#
match any family == "fixed" edit family =+ "mono";

#
# Check users config file
#
includeif "~/.xftconfig"

#
# Substitute TrueType fonts for Type1 versions
#
match any family == "Times" edit family =+ "Times New Roman";
match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "Verdana";
match any family == "Courier" edit family =+ "Courier New";

#
# Use TrueType fonts for defaults
#
match any family == "serif" edit family += "Times New Roman";
match any family == "sans" edit family += "Arial";
match any family == "sans" edit family += "Verdana";

#
# Use monotype.com (andale) face where possible
#
match
any family == "mono"
all slant == roman
all weight < bold
edit
family += "monotype.com";
#
# otherwise, use courier
#
match any family == "mono" edit family += "Courier New";
match any family == "mono" edit family += "Courier";

#
# Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local fonts
#
match any family == "Charter" edit family += "Bitstream Charter";
match any family == "Bitstream Charter" edit family =+ "Charter";

match any family == "Lucidux Serif" edit family += "LuciduxSerif";
match any family == "LuciduxSerif" edit family =+ "Lucidux Serif";

match any family == "Lucidux Sans" edit family += "LuciduxSans";
match any family == "LuciduxSans" edit family =+ "Lucidux Sans";

match any family == "Lucidux Mono" edit family += "LuciduxMono";
match any family == "LuciduxMono" edit family =+ "Lucidux Mono";

#
# TrueType font aliases
#
match any family == "Comic Sans" edit family += "Comic Sans MS";
match any family == "Comic Sans MS" edit family =+ "Comic Sans";
match any family == "Trebuchet" edit family += "Trebuchet MS";
match any family == "Trebuchet MS" edit family =+ "Trebuchet";
match any family == "Monotype" edit family =+ "Monotype.com";
match any family == "Andale Mono" edit family += "Monotype.com";
match any family == "Monotype.com" edit family =+ "Andale Mono";

# modifications from Laurent Culioli
match
any family == "webdings"
edit antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";
match
any family == "wingdings"
edit antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

# extra aliases -- pablo

# a nice default for sans serif (same as used in yudit)
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Arial";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "MS Gothic";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Gulim";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Baekmuk unigulir";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Unicode";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Tahoma";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "BPG UTF8 M";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "GF Zemen Unicode";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "MS Mincho";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Pigiarniq";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Urdu Naqsh Nastalique";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Ballymun RO";
# a nice monospaced one
match any family == "mono" edit family =+ "Lucida Console";
# korean
match any family == "Gulim" edit family =+ "Baekmuk unigulir";
match any family == "Batang" edit family =+ "Ubatang";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Gulim";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Batang";
match any family == "mono" edit family =+ "Gulim";
# chinese gb2312
match any family == "Kaiti" edit family =+ "AR PL KaitiM GB";
match any family == "Sungti" edit family =+ "AR PL SungtiL GB";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Sungti";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Sungti";
# chinese big5
match any family == "Kaiti" edit family =+ "AR PL KaitiM Big5";
match any family == "Mingti" edit family =+ "AR PL Mingti2L Big5";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Mingti";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Mingti";
# thai
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Norasi";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Norasi";
# armenian
match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
# indic
match any family == "Raghindi" edit family =+ "Raghu";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Raghindi";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Raghindi";

#
# If the Microsoft Web Fonts are not installed, we have to find a
# replacement
#

# these come with Sun JDK 1.3
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans";
match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Lucida Bright";
match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Typewriter";

# OpenOffice 6
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Tur";
match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Lucida Bright Tur";
match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Typewriter Tur";

# ttfonts from RH7
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Helmet";

# URW fonts
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Nimbus Sans L";
match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Nimbus Roman No9 L";
match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Nimbus Mono L";

# western fonts
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Blue Highway";

# XFree86 default fonts
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "LuciduxSans";
match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "LuciduxSerif";


# last ressort defaults
match any family == "Courier" edit family =+ "mono";

match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "sans";
match any family == "Arial" edit family =+ "sans";

match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "sans";
match any family == "Times" edit family =+ "serif";

# Aditions from Danny Tholen

match
any family == "symbol"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

match
any family == "Standard Symbols L"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

match
any family == "dingbats"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";


match
any family == "Cursor"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

match
any family == "StarBats"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

match
any family == "StarMath"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";


----
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/XftConfig
----

DIR "."

MATCH face = "Andale Mono" EDIT file = "monotype.ttf"

MATCH face = "Arial" EDIT file = "arial.ttf"
MATCH face = "Arial Bold" EDIT file = "arialbd.ttf"
MATCH face = "Arial Italic" EDIT file = "ariali.ttf"
MATCH face = "Arial Bold Italic" EDIT file = "arialbi.ttf"
MATCH face = "Arial Black" EDIT file = "ariblk.ttf"

MATCH face = "Comic Sans" EDIT file = "comic.ttf"
MATCH face = "Comic Sans Bold" EDIT file = "comicbd.ttf"

MATCH face = "Courier" EDIT file = "cour.ttf"
MATCH face = "Courier Bold" EDIT file = "courbd.ttf"
MATCH face = "Courier Italic" EDIT file = "couri.ttf"
MATCH face = "Courier Bold Italic" EDIT file = "courbi.ttf"

MATCH face = "Georgia" EDIT file = "georgia.ttf"
MATCH face = "Georgia Bold" EDIT file = "georgiab.ttf"
MATCH face = "Georgia Italic" EDIT file = "georgiai.ttf"
MATCH face = "Georgia Bold Italic" EDIT file = "georgiaz.ttf"

MATCH face = "Impact" EDIT file = "impact.ttf"

MATCH face = "Times" EDIT FILE = "times.ttf"
MATCH face = "Times Bold" EDIT FILE = "timesbd.ttf"
MATCH face = "Times Italic" EDIT FILE = "timesi.ttf"
MATCH face = "Times Bold Italic" EDIT FILE = "timesbi.ttf"

MATCH face = "Times New Roman" EDIT FILE = "times.ttf"
MATCH face = "Times New Roman Bold" EDIT FILE = "timesbd.ttf"
MATCH face = "Times New Roman Italic" EDIT FILE = "timesi.ttf"
MATCH face = "Times New Roman Bold Italic" EDIT FILE = "timesbi.ttf"

MATCH face = "Trebuchet" EDIT file = "trebuc.ttf"
MATCH face = "Trebuchet Bold" EDIT file = "trebucbd.ttf"
MATCH face = "Trebuchet Italic" EDIT file = "trebucit.ttf"
MATCH face = "Trebuchet Bold Italic" EDIT file = "trebucbi.ttf"

MATCH face = "Verdana" EDIT file = "verdana.ttf"
MATCH face = "Verdana Bold" EDIT file = "verdanab.ttf"
MATCH face = "Verdana Italic" EDIT file = "verdanai.ttf"
MATCH face = "Verdana Bold Italic" EDIT file = "verdanaz.ttf"

MATCH face = "Webdings" EDIT FILE = "webdings.ttf"

----
And the fonty bits of my /etc/X11/XF86Config, just for kicks:
----

# File generated by xf86config.

#
# Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
# THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
# OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
# SOFTWARE.
#
# Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall
# not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
# dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the
# XFree86 Project.
#

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"

# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
# If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other
# programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory
# to the end of this list (or comment them out).
#

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

# The module search path. The default path is shown here.

# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

EndSection
---

Does anyone see something wrong with these? Please help if you can, I'd love to see those beautiful fonts ^_^

[bendy]

I can't remember for sure, but I think you need:

[vorfeed]

When I start X via "xinit", xdpyinfo lists "RENDER" in the output:

number of extensions: 28
BIG-REQUESTS
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
Extended-Visual-Information
FontCache
GLX
LBX
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
NV-CONTROL
NV-GLX
NVIDIA-GLX
RENDER
SECURITY
SHAPE
SYNC
TOG-CUP
XC-APPGROUP
XC-MISC
XFree86-Bigfont
XFree86-Misc
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
XVideo-MotionCompensation

I added the load "dri" line to /etc/X11/XF86Config as advised. kdm still won't load, but now there's a change in the /var/log/kdm.log:

XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 18 January 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 i686 [ELF]
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Sep 15 02:04:54 2002
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
(II) [GLX]: Calling GlxExtensionInit
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list!

This is exactly what it said before, only with the addition of the lines about Symbol _glXActiveScreens.

Does this give you any hints?

[Malakin]

Load "dri" is something you specifically do not want if you're using the nvidia drivers.

RTFM :-)

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/README

[vorfeed]

Yeah, I noticed that in the manuals, just after I posted the last update, so I took out the load dri line.

Which takes me back to Square One. -_-;;

If anyone has any quick ideas, please post - otherwise, I think I'll just format the drive and start from scratch. Might as well, at this point.

Thanks for all the help, guys! I'll definitely ask here if I get stuck again.

[infox]

post the log for kdm when you try to run it. (after you take out 'load dri' from your config file for X)

[vorfeed]

The log for kdm was exactly the same as the above kdm log, only missing those two lines about dri. It didn't seem to have any errors in it.

Anyway, I'm just now emerging kde on a fresh Gentoo install, so hopefully this time I won't run into the same problem. Wish me luck ^___^

[Caffeine]

Hey there,
I had a similar problem with KDM refusing to start. I unmerged

media-video/nvidia-glx (Version 1.0.3123 )
media-video/nvidia-kernel (Version 1.0.3123 )

Then I emerged the older 1.0.2960-r1 of both said modules.

With the 1.0.3123 versions, I was getting the following errors:

[kengu]

I couldn't see from your config-file that you had loaded gl-core, but if you have, make sure it is NOT loaded.

[Felice]

Just a side note...

I had the same problem of kdm not loading after performing the same updates to opengl-update, nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel. When I was updating I saw that there's a new kernel build (gentoo-sources-r9). I emerged the new kernel did a 'make oldconfig' after relinking /usr/src/linux to the new kernel and moving the '.config' to the new kernel directory.

I then re-emerged opengl-update, nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel and X came right up. I made no changes to XF86config or the Xftconfig files. Hope this helps.

[Felice]

Sorry...you'll have to make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install and move the new kernel to /boot

[glecomte]

Had the same problem and just resolved it: i had the old NVdriver module still in /lib/modules/<kernel-version-here>/kernel/video/NVdriver though the new one is in /lib/modules/<kernel-version-here>/video/NVdriver

Of course the old drievr was loaded instead of the new one (Murphy ?), so when the nvidia XFree driver started, there was a version mismatch and boom.

Remove the old driver from /lib/modules/<kernel-version-here>/kernel/video and things will work again.

Now, the question is: Why is the new driver in a different place ?

[g_r_o_b]

In concern to the glx errors, check your XF86Config file and try using
driver "nvidia" instead of driver "nv" in the device section for your card.

[Blahbbs]

glecomte's suggestion fixed my problem. I, too, just emerged the new nvidia 1.0.3123 drivers. When kdm was started again, it wouldn't work. I'd get the same Failed to initialize NVdriver kernel module error.

I simply renamed the old driver in /lib/modules/<kernelver>/kernel/video to something else, and restarted. Ta-dah. It works. XFree86 finds the proper kernel driver in /lib/modules/<kernelver>/video

Thanks glecomte!

--Blahbbs!