Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi James, given that a go now... unfortunately failed build. Unfortunately, that's what life on the bleeding edge of kernel development can be like... Here is the bits I think are relevant to it failing: CC kernel/rt.o CC kernel/latency.o kernel/latency.c: In function `__trace_start_sched_wakeup': kernel/latency.c:1421: warning: implicit declaration of function `_trace_cmdline' It does look as if the build failure is related to Ingo's patches. Next month I will be embarking on a project which will provide a ready made low-latency 2.6.x kernel for pure 64-based Debian systems. I'll post to this list as soon as something is available, of course. Cheers Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Daniel, I have run the RP-patch-script... What do I do now? I've not actually made a kernel before :( James P.S. I sent this off-list to you, and your MTA rejected it...) 550 81.154.99.172 is listed at combined.njabl.org :( Daniel James wrote: Hi James, Someone sent me an off-list e-mail about beta tesing a multimedia kernel... Unfortunately, I lost that e-mail when i was messing around with my mail server settings (duh!)... Could whoever it was please resend? :) That was me! I'm currently working towards using 2.6.11 with the Ingo Molnar patch set, as his patches for 2.6.10 had a bug which caused them to fail compilation on x86_64. I don't have deb packages available yet, I'm afraid, but there is a script available which will do the patching for you - it will need to be updated for 2.6.11 though: http://affenbande.org/~tapas/RP-patch-script You may prefer to use the Debian source package of 2.6.11 when it becomes available, and patch it manually. See also this thread: http://lists.agnula.org/pipermail/developers/2005-March/007638.html Cheers Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi James, I have run the RP-patch-script... What do I do now? I've not actually made a kernel before :( Did the script download and patch a kernel source package for you? If so, unpack it in /usr/src/linux/ and run: make menuconfig as root. See: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html#CONFIGURATION-2-6 Be warned, it's not easy to do the first time! I sent this off-list to you, and your MTA rejected it...) 550 81.154.99.172 is listed at combined.njabl.org I have spam filtering on mondodesigno.com, so your ISP probably has spamming customers. See: http://www.njabl.org/ Use daniel at linux audio dot org if you still have problems. Cheers Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi James, Someone sent me an off-list e-mail about beta tesing a multimedia kernel... Unfortunately, I lost that e-mail when i was messing around with my mail server settings (duh!)... Could whoever it was please resend? :) That was me! I'm currently working towards using 2.6.11 with the Ingo Molnar patch set, as his patches for 2.6.10 had a bug which caused them to fail compilation on x86_64. I don't have deb packages available yet, I'm afraid, but there is a script available which will do the patching for you - it will need to be updated for 2.6.11 though: http://affenbande.org/~tapas/RP-patch-script You may prefer to use the Debian source package of 2.6.11 when it becomes available, and patch it manually. See also this thread: http://lists.agnula.org/pipermail/developers/2005-March/007638.html Cheers Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi all, Someone sent me an off-list e-mail about beta tesing a multimedia kernel... Unfortunately, I lost that e-mail when i was messing around with my mail server settings (duh!)... Could whoever it was please resend? :) Thanks James James Titcumb wrote: It appears that it is a mistake on my part... after checking Jen's reply carefully, I found out that somewhere between when I first started trying to install the nvidia drivers and now... my kernel version had changed... previously, I had the correct headers (kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8), and I upgraded kernel to 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8. Stupid mistake, I know. I have just logged in, and the nvidia drivers work fine... I can finally use my second monitor :) Thanks very much for both your help James David Hartveld wrote: James Titcumb schreef: Hi Jens, You seem to know a bit about the nVidia support. I have followed instructions as you said, and all seemed to go well, but XFree86.0.log says it can't load the module. Please see the logfile attatched. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure you have loaded the nvidia kernel module by hand (i.e. # modprobe nvidia, or put it in /etc/modules), it won't load automatically. Greetings, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Sorry, didn't send this to the list last time. Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? Yes, I have one and it works fine. I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc. The nvidia installer compiles the driver with no problem but then it complains about installing the nvidia module. There are symbols that are unrecognized. Nvidia warns that this is usually due to incorrect libs or kernel headers but I have all matching versions installed as prerequisite. So I am at a loss. I am hoping someone has figured out why nvidia's installer fails. I build my own Linux kernels (with make-kpkg so they end up being debian packages). Right now I'm running 2.6.11 and the nvidia installer worked fine after I patched it with the cumulative patch listed here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46676 There are also debs for the nvidia drivers in non-free, if you want to go that route. I've never used them but I'd expect them to work fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show nvidia-kernel-source Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 1.0.6629+1-1 Priority: optional Section: non-free/x11 Maintainer: Randall Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: debhelper ( 4.0.0), make, sed ( 3.0), dpatch (= 2.0.0) Recommends: nvidia-glx (= 1.0.6629), kernel-package (= 8.082), devscripts Conflicts: nvidia-kernel-src Replaces: nvidia-kernel-src Architecture: amd64 [--rest of output cut--] More info on this page: http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php So, try things out, don't hesitate to use google, and if you're still having problems then send another mail with more details, especially the output of anything that fails. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi Jens, Thanks! It all worked and what a difference! I still feel like a newbie but learning all the time! I really appreciate your help. Brian On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:19 am, Jens Vogel wrote: Hi, Basically there are four steps to follow if you want to get nVidia support working. Non-free must be included in your sources.list. 1. apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common 2. Follow the steps in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian 3. apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings 4. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Done. Hope that helps, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver. I have kdm as my window manager and am running KDE3.3.x and it all works quite well! Very excited about that! Now, I want to get hardware graphics support up and running. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Other info: I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc. The nvidia installer compiles the driver with no problem but then it complains about installing the nvidia module. There are symbols that are unrecognized. Nvidia warns that this is usually due to incorrect libs or kernel headers but I have all matching versions installed as prerequisite. So I am at a loss. I am hoping someone has figured out why nvidia's installer fails. Thank You and Advance!!! -- http://desktux.xs4all.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi Brian, What kernel version and APT sources are you using? My apt doesn't appear to have nvidia-kernel-common... Thanks in advance, James Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Hi Jens, Thanks! It all worked and what a difference! I still feel like a newbie but learning all the time! I really appreciate your help. Brian On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:19 am, Jens Vogel wrote: Hi, Basically there are four steps to follow if you want to get nVidia support working. Non-free must be included in your sources.list. 1. apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common 2. Follow the steps in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian 3. apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings 4. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Done. Hope that helps, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver. I have kdm as my window manager and am running KDE3.3.x and it all works quite well! Very excited about that! Now, I want to get hardware graphics support up and running. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Other info: I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc. The nvidia installer compiles the driver with no problem but then it complains about installing the nvidia module. There are symbols that are unrecognized. Nvidia warns that this is usually due to incorrect libs or kernel headers but I have all matching versions installed as prerequisite. So I am at a loss. I am hoping someone has figured out why nvidia's installer fails. Thank You and Advance!!! -- http://desktux.xs4all.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi James, My APT Sources.list contains: deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sarge main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sarge main contrib non-free and I am running kernelversion 2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 which is a stock kernel. Brian On Sunday 06 March 2005 02:29 am, you wrote: Hi Brian, What kernel version and APT sources are you using? My apt doesn't appear to have nvidia-kernel-common... Thanks in advance, James Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Hi Jens, Thanks! It all worked and what a difference! I still feel like a newbie but learning all the time! I really appreciate your help. Brian On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:19 am, Jens Vogel wrote: Hi, Basically there are four steps to follow if you want to get nVidia support working. Non-free must be included in your sources.list. 1. apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common 2. Follow the steps in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian 3. apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings 4. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Done. Hope that helps, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver. I have kdm as my window manager and am running KDE3.3.x and it all works quite well! Very excited about that! Now, I want to get hardware graphics support up and running. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Other info: I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc. The nvidia installer compiles the driver with no problem but then it complains about installing the nvidia module. There are symbols that are unrecognized. Nvidia warns that this is usually due to incorrect libs or kernel headers but I have all matching versions installed as prerequisite. So I am at a loss. I am hoping someone has figured out why nvidia's installer fails. Thank You and Advance!!! -- http://desktux.xs4all.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi Jens, You seem to know a bit about the nVidia support. I have followed instructions as you said, and all seemed to go well, but XFree86.0.log says it can't load the module. Please see the logfile attatched. I hope you can help... I'm using the same arch as Brian (2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 (sarge)), and I simply cannot seem to get it working.. Many thanks in advance, James Jens Vogel wrote: Hi, Basically there are four steps to follow if you want to get nVidia support working. Non-free must be included in your sources.list. 1. apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common 2. Follow the steps in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian 3. apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings 4. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Done. Hope that helps, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver. I have kdm as my window manager and am running KDE3.3.x and it all works quite well! Very excited about that! Now, I want to get hardware graphics support up and running. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Other info: I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc. The nvidia installer compiles the driver with no problem but then it complains about installing the nvidia module. There are symbols that are unrecognized. Nvidia warns that this is usually due to incorrect libs or kernel headers but I have all matching versions installed as prerequisite. So I am at a loss. I am hoping someone has figured out why nvidia's installer fails. Thank You and Advance!!! XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 2005022119 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 x86_64 [ELF] Build Date: 20 February 2005 This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any way. Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting . We strongly encourage the use of the reportbug package and command to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as possible. Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ: XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.4 20041218 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-7)) #1 Wed Feb 9 22:29:16 CET 2005 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 Mar 6 16:15:38 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen Default Screen (0) (**) | |--Monitor gnr (**) | |--Device nVidia FX5700 (**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc104 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (**) Option XkbVariant gb (**) XKB: variant: gb (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (WW) The directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (++) using VT number 7 (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1039,0755 card 1019,1891 rev 01 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1039,0002
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
James Titcumb schreef: Hi Jens, You seem to know a bit about the nVidia support. I have followed instructions as you said, and all seemed to go well, but XFree86.0.log says it can't load the module. Please see the logfile attatched. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure you have loaded the nvidia kernel module by hand (i.e. # modprobe nvidia, or put it in /etc/modules), it won't load automatically. Greetings, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Hi James, Can you please also post the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? As far as I can see from here either the compilation went wrong or the XF86Config-4 contains a mistake. With the XF86Config-4 I made the best experiences with removing or commenting the following lines from 'Section Module': - Load GLcore (at least this one is active according to your log) - Load dri Also the complete 'Section DRI' (if exists) needs to be commented. As for the compilation... if you can find a relevant log, please post it as well. This is quite some time ago for me, if I recall correctly `export CC=gcc-3.4' had to be set before you could start compiling. But I am absolutely not sure about this. I followed the Method #1 from the README, of course the correct kernel-headers have to be installed: # apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` I am running Sid/Pure64 w/ 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 and the nVidia-driver is working fine. I still have the .deb file, but I am not sure whether it's legal to post it (if it would help you anyway). Greets, Jens James Titcumb wrote: Hi Jens, You seem to know a bit about the nVidia support. I have followed instructions as you said, and all seemed to go well, but XFree86.0.log says it can't load the module. Please see the logfile attatched. I hope you can help... I'm using the same arch as Brian (2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 (sarge)), and I simply cannot seem to get it working.. Many thanks in advance, James Jens Vogel wrote: Hi, Basically there are four steps to follow if you want to get nVidia support working. Non-free must be included in your sources.list. 1. apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common 2. Follow the steps in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian 3. apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings 4. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Done. Hope that helps, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver. I have kdm as my window manager and am running KDE3.3.x and it all works quite well! Very excited about that! Now, I want to get hardware graphics support up and running. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Other info: I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc. The nvidia installer compiles the driver with no problem but then it complains about installing the nvidia module. There are symbols that are unrecognized. Nvidia warns that this is usually due to incorrect libs or kernel headers but I have all matching versions installed as prerequisite. So I am at a loss. I am hoping someone has figured out why nvidia's installer fails. Thank You and Advance!!! -- http://desktux.xs4all.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
It appears that it is a mistake on my part... after checking Jen's reply carefully, I found out that somewhere between when I first started trying to install the nvidia drivers and now... my kernel version had changed... previously, I had the correct headers (kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8), and I upgraded kernel to 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8. Stupid mistake, I know. I have just logged in, and the nvidia drivers work fine... I can finally use my second monitor :) Thanks very much for both your help James David Hartveld wrote: James Titcumb schreef: Hi Jens, You seem to know a bit about the nVidia support. I have followed instructions as you said, and all seemed to go well, but XFree86.0.log says it can't load the module. Please see the logfile attatched. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure you have loaded the nvidia kernel module by hand (i.e. # modprobe nvidia, or put it in /etc/modules), it won't load automatically. Greetings, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
