John Burrell wrote: > >> >> I'm not sure which card you have. > It's a GeForce 8700M GT apparently. >> > > I had to add nomodeset as a kernel parameter to get the machine to boot and > avoid the cycling color screens. > >> You do have to be careful when building the kernel not to include nvidia >> drivers. > There is nothing with *NVIDIA*=(y/m) set in the .config file >> >> You might want to post the critical parts of Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf. >> For instance: > I have this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Nvidia card" > Driver "nouveau" > EndSection
What happens if you change to the "nv" driver? > Here are the critical bits of /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > [ 84.069] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" > [ 84.069] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so > [ 84.085] (II) NOUVEAU driver > [ 84.085] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families : > [ 84.085] RIVA TNT (NV04) > [ 84.085] RIVA TNT2 (NV05) > [ 84.085] GeForce 256 (NV10) > [ 84.085] GeForce 2 (NV11, NV15) > [ 84.085] GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18) > [ 84.085] GeForce 3 (NV20) > [ 84.085] GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28) > [ 84.085] GeForce FX (NV3x) > [ 84.085] GeForce 6 (NV4x) > [ 84.086] GeForce 7 (G7x) > [ 84.086] GeForce 8 (G8x) > [ 84.086] GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0) > [ 84.086] GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0) > [ 84.086] (--) using VT number 7 > Fatal server error: > [ 84.262] no screens found > lsmod shows the nouveau module is loaded, along with a few dependent modules. > > Any idea why drm doesn't detect the device? For some reason the nouveux driver is not recognizing your card. What does lspci say about your video HW? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
