sorry for another NVIDIA related topic.... (X not working)

[darksaidin]

The past week I've been trying to get the nvidia driver to work with my gentoo linux 2.6 installation. Of course it still doesn't work (hence the post). I've digged through tons of other threads on this topic, however none of the sollutions helped me or maybe I'm to stupid to find it

First of all, some months ago I had a 2.4 gentoo running on a small HDD partition where the nvidia driver worked. Gentoo worked so well that I decided to use the whole HDD for gentoo - so I had to reinstall. This time I wanted to start directly with 2.6 as I had a few problems with the 2.4 alsa drivers....
Anyway, I remember modprobe nvidia gave me a warning about a tainted kernel. I don't receive that warning with the 2.6 kernel now. Is that ok for 2.6 kernels or already a first sign that something is wrong?

I'm more or less sure my X-config is correct, but maybe I'm wrong, so I'll post the relevant sections here.

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Section "Module"
	Load	"dbe"
	SubSection  "extmod"
		Option	"omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
	EndSubSection
	Load	"type1"
	Load	"freetype"
#	Load	"xtt"
#	Load	"speedo"
	Load	"glx"
#	Load	"dri"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath		"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
[...]
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
[...]
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"iiyamaAS4315UT"
	HorizSync		24.8-80.0
	VertRefresh	56-75
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"NVidiaGForce4"
	Driver			"nvidia"
	VideoRam		65536
	Option			"NvAGP"							"1"
	Option			"ConnectedMonitor"	"DFP"
	BusID				"PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"NVidiaScreen"
	Device			"NVidiaGForce4"
	Monitor			"iiyamaAS4315UT"
	DefaultDepth	24
	Subsection "Display"
		Depth			24
		Modes			"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		ViewPort	0 0
	EndSubsection
EndSection

Section	"ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"SimpleLayout"
	Screen			"NVidiaScreen"
	InputDevice	"Mouse1"		"CorePointer"
	InputDevice	"Keyboard1"	"CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

When I try to start X it gives me an error about "no devices found"

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(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

I've also tried not to use AGP - wthout success. I've tested this with the mm-2.6 and gentoo-2.6 sources, with or without agpart and powermanagement. I tested older nvidia driver versions, but those wouldn't compile against kernel 2.6. I tested the 4499 version, but it doesn't compile either (I think it's for 64 bit machines?). And now I'm out of ideas and need some help

In case there is more usefull information in the X-log, I've also added the whole logfile.... (I've wrapped the line about "fontpath" because it broke the threaddisplay (more than 100% width))

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XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.0-test9-gentoo i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 04 November 2003
	Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
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: Fri Nov  7 13:39:26 2003
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
(==) ServerLayout "SimpleLayout"
(**) |-->Screen "NVidiaScreen" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "iiyamaAS4315UT"
(**) |   |-->Device "NVidiaGForce4"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) XKB: model: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "de"
(**) XKB: layout: "de"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
Using vt 7
(--) using VT number 7

(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x00000000, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,3099 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,b099 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:10:0: chip 1106,3038 card 1106,3038 rev 80 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:10:1: chip 1106,3038 card 1106,3038 rev 80 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:10:2: chip 1106,3038 card 1106,3038 rev 80 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:10:3: chip 1106,3104 card 1106,3104 rev 82 class 0c,03,20 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 1106,3177 card 1106,3177 rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:11:1: chip 1106,0571 card 1106,0571 rev 06 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:11:5: chip 1106,3059 card 1695,3005 rev 50 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:12:0: chip 1106,3065 card 1695,3005 rev 74 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0253 card 1462,8700 rev a3 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
	[0] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
	[0] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
	[0] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x000c (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
	[0] -1	0	0xe4000000 - 0xe5ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B]
(II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range:
	[0] -1	0	0xd0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x10000000) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:17:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] rev 163, Mem @ 0xe4000000/24, 0xd0000000/27, 0xd8000000/19
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
	[0] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
	[1] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
	[0] -1	0	0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
	[1] -1	0	0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
	[2] -1	0	0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
	[3] -1	0	0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
	[4] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
	[5] -1	0	0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
	[6] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xe0000000 from 0xe3ffffff to 0xdfffffff
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
	[0] -1	0	0xe7001000 - 0xe70010ff (0x100) MX[B]
	[1] -1	0	0xe7000000 - 0xe70000ff (0x100) MX[B]
	[2] -1	0	0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
	[3] -1	0	0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
	[4] -1	0	0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
	[5] -1	0	0xe4000000 - 0xe4ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
	[6] -1	0	0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
	[7] -1	0	0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B]
	[8] -1	0	0x0000e000 - 0x0000e00f (0x10) IX[B]
	[9] -1	0	0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc1f (0x20) IX[B]
	[10] -1	0	0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B]
	[11] -1	0	0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
	[0] -1	0	0xe7001000 - 0xe70010ff (0x100) MX[B]
	[1] -1	0	0xe7000000 - 0xe70000ff (0x100) MX[B]
	[2] -1	0	0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
	[3] -1	0	0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
	[4] -1	0	0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
	[5] -1	0	0xe4000000 - 0xe4ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
	[6] -1	0	0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
	[7] -1	0	0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B]
	[8] -1	0	0x0000e000 - 0x0000e00f (0x10) IX[B]
	[9] -1	0	0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc1f (0x20) IX[B]
	[10] -1	0	0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B]
	[11] -1	0	0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
	[0] -1	0	0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
	[1] -1	0	0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
	[2] -1	0	0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
	[3] -1	0	0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
	[4] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
	[5] -1	0	0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
	[6] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) All system resource ranges:
	[0] -1	0	0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
	[1] -1	0	0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
	[2] -1	0	0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
	[3] -1	0	0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
	[4] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
	[5] -1	0	0xe7001000 - 0xe70010ff (0x100) MX[B]
	[6] -1	0	0xe7000000 - 0xe70000ff (0x100) MX[B]
	[7] -1	0	0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
	[8] -1	0	0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
	[9] -1	0	0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
	[10] -1	0	0xe4000000 - 0xe4ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
	[11] -1	0	0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
	[12] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
	[13] -1	0	0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
	[14] -1	0	0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B]
	[15] -1	0	0x0000e000 - 0x0000e00f (0x10) IX[B]
	[16] -1	0	0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc1f (0x20) IX[B]
	[17] -1	0	0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B]
	[18] -1	0	0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w,
	mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag400,
	mgag550
(II) GLINT: driver for 3Dlabs chipsets: gamma, gamma2, ti_pm2, ti_pm, r4,
	pm4, pm3, pm2v, pm2, pm, 300sx, 500tx, mx, delta
(II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, Vanta,
	RIVA TNT2 Ultra, RIVA TNT2 Model 64, Aladdin TNT2, GeForce 256,
	GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 MX/MX 400, GeForce2 MX 100/200,
	GeForce2 Go, Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go, GeForce2 Integrated GPU,
	GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Ti, GeForce2 Ultra, Quadro2 Pro,
	GeForce4 MX 460, GeForce4 MX 440, GeForce4 MX 420,
	GeForce4 MX 440-SE, GeForce4 440 Go, GeForce4 420 Go,
	GeForce4 420 Go 32M, GeForce4 460 Go, GeForce4 440 Go 64M,
	GeForce4 410 Go 16M, Quadro4 500 GoGL, Quadro4 550 XGL, Quadro4 NVS,
	GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X, GeForce4 MX 440SE with AGP8X,
	GeForce4 MX 420 with AGP8X, GeForce4 448 Go, GeForce4 488 Go,
	Quadro4 580 XGL, Quadro4 280 NVS, Quadro4 380 XGL,
	GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU, GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti 200,
	GeForce3 Ti 500, Quadro DCC, GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce4 Ti 4400,
	0x0252, GeForce4 Ti 4200, Quadro4 900 XGL, Quadro4 750 XGL,
	Quadro4 700 XGL, GeForce4 Ti 4800, GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X,
	GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE, GeForce4 4200 Go, Quadro4 700 GoGL,
	Quadro4 980 XGL, Quadro4 780 XGL, 0x0300, GeForce FX 5800 Ultra,
	GeForce FX 5800, Quadro FX 2000, Quadro FX 1000,
	GeForce FX 5600 Ultra, GeForce FX 5600, 0x0316, 0x0317, 0x0318,
	0x0319, 0x031A, 0x031B, 0x031C, 0x031D, 0x031E, 0x031F,
	GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, GeForce FX 5200, 0x0323, GeForce FX Go5200,
	GeForce FX Go5250, 0x032A, Quadro FX 500, 0x032C, 0x032D, 0x032F
(II) TGA: driver for Digital chipsets: tga, tga2
(II) S3: driver (version 0.3.5 for S3 chipset: 964-0, 964-1, 968,
	Trio32/64, Aurora64V+
(II) S3VIRGE: driver (version 1.8.6) for S3 ViRGE chipsets: virge, 86C325,
	virge vx, 86C988, virge dx, virge gx, 86C375, 86C385, virge gx2,
	86C357, virge mx, 86C260, virge mx+, 86C280, trio 3d, 86C365,
	trio 3d/2x, 86C362, 86C368
(II) SIS: driver for SiS chipsets: SIS5597/5598, SIS530/620,
	SIS6326/AGP/DVD, SIS300/305, SIS630/730, SIS540, SIS315, SIS315H,
	SIS315PRO, SIS550, SIS650/M650/651/740, SIS330(Xabre),
	SIS660/661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/760
(II) RENDITION: rendition driver (version 4.0) for chipsets: V1000,
	V2100/V2200
(II) NEOMAGIC: Driver for Neomagic chipsets: neo2070, neo2090, neo2093,
	neo2097, neo2160, neo2200, neo2230, neo2360, neo2380
(II) I740: Driver for Intel i740 chipset: i740 (agp), i740 (pci)
(II) TDFX: Driver for 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 chipsets: 3dfx Banshee,
	3dfx Voodoo3, 3dfx Voodoo5
(II) SAVAGE: driver (version 1.1.27t) for S3 Savage chipsets: Savage4,
	Savage3D, Savage3D-MV, Savage2000, Savage/MX-MV, Savage/MX,
	Savage/IX-MV, Savage/IX, ProSavage PM133, ProSavage KM133,
	Twister PN133, Twister KN133, SuperSavage/MX 128, SuperSavage/MX 64,
	SuperSavage/MX 64C, SuperSavage/IX 128, SuperSavage/IX 128,
	SuperSavage/IX 64, SuperSavage/IX 64, SuperSavage/IXC 64,
	SuperSavage/IXC 64, ProSavage DDR, ProSavage DDR-K
(II) CIRRUS: driver for Cirrus chipsets: CLGD5430, CLGD5434-4, CLGD5434-8,
	CLGD5436, CLGD5446, CLGD5480, CL-GD5462, CL-GD5464, CL-GD5464BD,
	CL-GD5465, CL-GD7548
(II) VMWARE: driver for VMware SVGA: vmware0405, vmware0710
(II) TSENG: driver for Tseng Labs chipsets: ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i,
	ET4000W32p, ET6000, ET6100,
(II) TRIDENT: driver for Trident chipsets: tvga9000, tvga9000i, tvga8900c,
	tvga8900d, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, cyber9320, cyber9388, cyber9397,
	cyber9397dvd, cyber9520, cyber9525dvd, cyberblade/e4, tgui9420dgi,
	tgui9440agi, tgui9660, tgui9680, providia9682, providia9685,
	cyber9382, cyber9385, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, blade3d, cyberbladei7,
	cyberbladei7d, cyberbladei1, cyberbladei1d, cyberbladeAi1,
	cyberbladeAi1d, bladeXP, cyberbladeXPAi1
(II) CHIPS: Driver for Chips and Technologies chipsets: ct65520, ct65525,
	ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548, ct65550,
	ct65554, ct65555, ct68554, ct69000, ct69030, ct64200, ct64300
(II) APM: driver for the Alliance chipsets: AP6422, AT24, AT3D
(II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev, afb
(II) I128: driver for Number Nine I128 chipsets: i128, i128v2, i128t2r,
	i128t2r4
(II) NSC: Nsc family driver (version 2.7.6) for chipsets: 5530, SC1200,
	SC1400, REDCLOUD
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.4.18) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets:
	ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LF (AGP),
	ATI Rage 128 Mobility M4 MF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M4 ML (AGP),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PA (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PB (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PC (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PD (PCI),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PE (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PF (AGP),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PG (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PH (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PI (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PJ (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PK (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PL (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PM (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PN (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PO (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PP (PCI),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PQ (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PR (PCI),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PS (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PT (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PU (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PV (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PW (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PX (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 GL RE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 GL RF (AGP),
	ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 VR RK (PCI),
	ATI Rage 128 VR RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SE (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 4X SF (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 4X SG (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 4X SH (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 4X SK (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 4X SL (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 4X SM (AGP),
	ATI Rage 128 4X SN (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TF (AGP),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TR (AGP),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TS (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TT (AGP?),
	ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TU (AGP?)
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
	ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP),
	ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP), ATI Radeon VE/7000 QZ (AGP),
	ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP),
	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 M7 LX (AGP),
	ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LZ (AGP),
	ATI Radeon IGP320 (A3) 4136, ATI Radeon IGP320M (U1) 4336,
	ATI Radeon IGP330/340/350 (A4) 4137,
	ATI Radeon IGP330M/340M/350M (U2) 4337,
	ATI Radeon 7000 IGP (A4+) 4237, ATI Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP 4437,
	ATI FireGL 8700/8800 QH (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QI (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 8500 QJ (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QK (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 8500 QL (AGP), ATI Radeon 9100 QM (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 8500 QN (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QO (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 8500 Qh (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 Qi (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 8500 Qj (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 Qk (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 8500 Ql (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 BB (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 7500 QW (AGP), ATI Radeon 7500 QX (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9000 Id (AGP), ATI Radeon 9000 Ie (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9000 If (AGP), ATI Radeon 9000 Ig (AGP),
	ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Ld (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Le (AGP),
	ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lf (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lg (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9000 IGP (A5) 5834,
	ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 IGP (U3) 5835, ATI Radeon 9200 5960 (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9200 5961 (AGP), ATI Radeon 9200 5962 (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9200 5963 (AGP), ATI Radeon 9200 5964 (AGP),
	ATI Radeon M9+ 5968 (AGP), ATI Radeon M9+ 5969 (AGP),
	ATI Radeon M9+ 596A (AGP), ATI Radeon M9+ 596B (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9500 AD (AGP), ATI Radeon 9500 AE (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9500 AF (AGP), ATI FireGL Z1/X1 AG (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ND (AGP), ATI Radeon 9700/9500Pro NE (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9700 NF (AGP), ATI FireGL X1 NG (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600 Pro AR (AGP),
	ATI Radeon Mobility M10 NP (AGP), ATI FireGL (R350) AK (AGP),
	ATI Radeon 9800 NH (AGP), ATI FireGL (R350) NK (AGP)
(II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100,
	i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G
(II) ARK: driver (version 0.5.0 for ARK Logic chipset: ark1000pv,
	ark2000pv, ark2000mt
(II) CYRIX: driver for Cyrix MediaGX Processors: mediagx
(II) Silicon Motion: driver (version 1.3.1) for Silicon Motion Lynx chipsets:
	Lynx, LynxE, Lynx3D, LynxEM, LynxEM+, Lynx3DM
(II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(II) VGA: Generic VGA driver (version 4.0) for chipsets: generic
(II) DUMMY: Driver for Dummy chipsets: dummy
(II) v4l driver for Video4Linux
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(EE) No devices detected.

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[NeddySeagoon]

darksaidin,

You should still get the taiinted kernel warning. Its caused by the binary only nVidia kernel module. If you don't get the warning the module is not loading.
Check with /sbin/lsmod to see whats loaded.

By default, the nVidia kernel module build against whatever the symlink /usr/src/linux points to. Since you have been trying different kernels you may have built and installed the nVida module in a kernel other than the one you are running.

If you follow the Gentoo build procedure, you can only have the nVidia kernel module installed in one kernel at a time, which is a pain.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon

[gnobus]

If you're using DFP, you need to try

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 Option      "NoLogo" "true"

in Device section.
This is extremely important as far as my Sharp LL-T1620 (DVI).

And 'taints kernel' warning seems negligible because my X is working properly despite it.
You may refer to my thread posted a few days ago.

[mattschwartz]

I found the same exact problem. The NVidia driver isn't perfectly compatible with the 2.6 kernel. But I found this site: http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html. This guy made some changes which are supposed to fix it, but I couldn't get it to work either. The module gets loaded, but still does not work for X properly. You shouldn't have to change anything in your XF86Config file. I had to stick with the 2.4 kernel to keep graphics accelerated. I found performance was better with 2.4 kernel + pre-emptive kernel option + nvidia driver compared to 2.6 without the nvidia driver. Let us know if you get the patch from minion.de to work.

[MasterElfy]

I had the same problem getting nvidia drivers to install

The issue is with hardened_gcc. Hardened GCC bullds the XFree86 Server Without DoLoadableModules/DoLoadableServerModules. (spelling?? it may be called something difference, but look into the ebuild for hardened_gcc)

If you look in the xc/config/cf/host.def. Its defined twice, one with DoLoadableModules Yes and the Last one, the one that takes effect is the one saying no.


You have two choices here.

Either you can uninstall hardened_gcc for the emerge xfree by doing a

(note spelling maybe incorrect)
# emerge unemerge hardened-gcc

or edit the ebuild and comment out the lines stating has_version ">=hardened-gcc".

Also another note, if there is a bug in the ebuild with matrox HAL drivers, that you have to comment out the matroxHal line, its approximating on line 504/505ish. something like "build MatroxHal".


After editing your ebuild and the other things stated above rebuild xfree

#emerge xfree

or if you are using my patch for the VIDEO_CARDS variable, you can speed it up by doing

VIDEO_CARDS="nv vga vesa" emerge xfree


Hope This Helps,

Paul

[st589]

I found the same exact problem. The NVidia driver isn't perfectly compatible with the 2.6 kernel. But I found this site: http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html. This guy made some changes which are supposed to fix it, but I couldn't get it to work either. The module gets loaded, but still does not work for X properly. You shouldn't have to change anything in your XF86Config file. I had to stick with the 2.4 kernel to keep graphics accelerated. I found performance was better with 2.4 kernel + pre-emptive kernel option + nvidia driver compared to 2.6 without the nvidia driver. Let us know if you get the patch from minion.de to work.

I've been using the patch from that site for my 2.6 kernel with no problems.

[darksaidin]

You should still get the taiinted kernel warning. Its caused by the binary only nVidia kernel module. If you don't get the warning the module is not loading.
Check with /sbin/lsmod to see whats loaded.

By default, the nVidia kernel module build against whatever the symlink /usr/src/linux points to. Since you have been trying different kernels you may have built and installed the nVida module in a kernel other than the one you are running.

modprobe nvidia does not output a warning about kernel tainting but lsmod lists nvidia after I modprobed / insmodded it. Funny, ain't it ?
As for the symlink: This actually happened to me once, but I remember that I got an error message from modprobe after I emerged nvidia kernel against the wrong sources. So thats not the problem.

If you're using DFP, you need to try

Code: Select all

 Option      "NoLogo" "true"

in Device section.
This is extremely important as far as my Sharp LL-T1620 (DVI).

Now that you mention it, I remember I had a few troubles with the logo back when I used the 2.4 kernel, but that caused a different error. Anyway, I tried that option and it unfortunatly didn't help.

I found the same exact problem. The NVidia driver isn't perfectly compatible with the 2.6 kernel. But I found this site: http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html. This guy made some changes which are supposed to fix it, but I couldn't get it to work either.

Thank you for the link! I will try that now and report later.
As for the hardened GCC - won't this require me to rebuild my entire system?

I wish Linux had something like DLLs....

[darksaidin]

I found the same exact problem. The NVidia driver isn't perfectly compatible with the 2.6 kernel. But I found this site: http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html. This guy made some changes which are supposed to fix it, but I couldn't get it to work either. The module gets loaded, but still does not work for X properly. You shouldn't have to change anything in your XF86Config file. I had to stick with the 2.4 kernel to keep graphics accelerated. I found performance was better with 2.4 kernel + pre-emptive kernel option + nvidia driver compared to 2.6 without the nvidia driver. Let us know if you get the patch from minion.de to work.

I've been using the patch from that site for my 2.6 kernel with no problems.

Ok, seems like I'm not smart enough to understand the instructions on minion.de. This is what I did: I emerged nvidia-kernel and glx, then downloaded the 4496 diff file, downloaded the nvidia-......-4496.pkg0.run and extracted it (--extract-only), applied the diff patch as described in the readme, relinked the kmake file and make installed it. Just to have the feeling of the good old windows times I did a reboot, modprobed nvidia - which again did not taint my kernel, launched X and was not surprised not to see anything - other than the same old errormessage.
Am I drunk or dumb?


Well, anyways, now I unmerged the hardened-gcc (why can I still compile stuff without a gcc??) and I'm emerging X again. I guess this will take a couple of hours. I'm out for Enterprise

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edit: I don't want to bump this post again, but just for the archives: It works now that I recompiled nvidia-kernel, glx and the x-windows system without hardened-gcc. Thank you very much, MasterElfy!

[mike4148]

The nvidia-kernel ebuilds automatically patch it for 2.6 as necessary. At least, it did for me (1.0.4496-r3).

[flecluse]

I have the following problem, whenever i put the driver to nvidia and start X i get a screen with blocks in different color without any pattern in it. I use a 2.6.0-test9 kernel and i have a GeForce FX 5600 grafics card and a Sony LCD monitor (on a normal vga connector)

Can somebody help me out.

When i use the driver nv (the generic one) all works fine.