trouble installing xorg-server with Nvidia (nouveau)

knightabeo · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 7

ok, i've been through countless forums about this issue and no one has resolved it...

i seem to have configured my video card kernel drivers correctly...

that is until i try to install xorg
if i run xorg -configure the only error i get is:

(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.

if i run startx, these are my errors:

(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exit, 0)
resize called 1024 768
/etc/X11/xinitrc: line 63: exec: xterm: not found
xinit: connection to X server lost

just to be clear i have no *.conf files with this build, supposedly xorg is supposed to run 'out of box'...
yea f'in right, i'm read to break my nvidia card over my leg and use my garbage integrated video card...
anyone know wtf is the deal...again i've seen countless entries over the last few years in forums, i feel like i'm at the DMV

and all the 'how to' pages for nouveau, xorg, nvidia, etc. are garbage, i've already seen them

So just to be clear without having to read rest of thread, i got these errors with my kernel configured for my video card correctly, i just went ahead and installed gnome and it worked....so didn't need to worry about Xorg -configure or startx without a windows manager (kde, gnome, etc.)

knightabeo · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 7

just to add...i'm using the Nouveau option for my GeForce 6800 GS card

jburns · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:28 am Post subject:

Have you installed something that uses the X server (gnome, kde, ...)?

knightabeo · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 7

not yet, i thought i'm supposed to install xorg-server and configure it correctly before installing gnome, kde, etc., according to everything i've read i should be able to install xorg and configure it and even test it before installing a gui...? i used gentoo before but was like 6 yrs ago, haven't touched linux since so i'm a re-noob....but from what i've seen nvidia is a linux nightmare...

jburns · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:30 am Post subject:

Install something that uses the X server and it should work.

6 yrs ago it would have worked because xorg-server would have installed twm.

knightabeo · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 7

i did figure something out i think, i'm supposed to emerge x11-base/nouveau-drm-*

but when i do it says this:

CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO: is not set when it should be.
CONFIG_DRM: should not be set. But it is.
CONFIG_MXM_WMI: is not set when it should be.

can u tell me how to set these kernel configurations and then do i rebuild it like normal?

there's also another package i believe i'm supposed to emerge:
x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau

knightabeo · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 7

the last package i just listed i just emerged ok, so it's just the nouveau drm that i need to emerge apparently

knightabeo · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 7

ok so i was wrong to make a long story short, i'm gonna try what u said i'm emerging gnome at the moment....yuck 330 items...see ya in a day or so :/

knightabeo · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 7

well, i'm looking at an interactive gnome desktop now...i still think there's some work to be done, but at least it's working...

dirkfanick · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject:

barul · Guru Joined: 28 May 2010 Posts: 434

You should add the VIDEO_CARDS variable to your /etc/make.conf

Aquous · l33t Joined: 08 Jan 2011 Posts: 700

gerard27 · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject:

@dirkfanick,
No,he uses 12 volts DC!
Gerard.
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