Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:29:09 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, > In my experience, various nvidia-drivers just seem to "not work" with > my system, no matter how many times I rebuild and recheck things. I > have a whole bunch of versions masked. Looking back, I never seemed > to have a problem with 180.60 - I ran it for about 4-6 weeks. > > You could try adding this to /etc/portage/package.mask: > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.60 I did upgrade... > Then decide whether you want to downgrade to the previous stable, or > upgrade to the latest unstable. I'm running unstable 190.42-r2 and so > far it's quite "stable", but as we've seen, every system is different! > (I'm on ~x86, so quite a bit of my system will differ from yours). here I'm... same version as you but diff revision . [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Installed versions: 190.42-r3!s(12:51:20 PM 11/16/2009)(acpi gtk kernel_li X starts fine (I see NVidia logo for only half second) I can change between workspaces fine, but when I open an application it hangs... I'm lucky cause I can change to virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and no reboot needed, but I'm really tired about this issue... nv does not work neither and I don't know what else I can try... Vesa sucks (well, at least I can see things in my screen if I take off my glasses) and I see no other people with same problem. > HTH, Thanks for your reply, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:54 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:44:48 +0100 > Arnau Bria wrote: > > [...] > > will read guide again, maybe I missed some step.. > nop, no missed steps. :-( > In my experience, various nvidia-drivers just seem to "not work" with my system, no matter how many times I rebuild and recheck things. I have a whole bunch of versions masked. Looking back, I never seemed to have a problem with 180.60 - I ran it for about 4-6 weeks. You could try adding this to /etc/portage/package.mask: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.60 Then decide whether you want to downgrade to the previous stable, or upgrade to the latest unstable. I'm running unstable 190.42-r2 and so far it's quite "stable", but as we've seen, every system is different! (I'm on ~x86, so quite a bit of my system will differ from yours). HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens?
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:44:48 +0100 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] > will read guide again, maybe I missed some step.. nop, no missed steps. :-( -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:37:21 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: [...] > The ebuild outputs this elog: > > echo > elog "You must be in the video group to use the NVIDIA device" > elog "For more info, read the docs at" > elog > "http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml#doc_chap3_sect6"; elog > > > Is the user in the video group? sure. $ id uid=1000(arnau) gid=1000(arnau) groups=10(wheel),16(cron),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),1000(arnau),1007(plugdev),1014(vboxusers) it worked fine until xorg 1.6 and nvidia-driver upgrade. As I used hal, and did not work fine for me, I first thought it was hal related, but now seems other issue... will read guide again, maybe I missed some step.. thanks for your reply, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:25:20 Arnau Bria wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:57:28 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:33:22 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > # grep EE Xorg.0.log > > > > to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > > > I read something here about dri and dri2 some days ago, but don't > > > remember. I think they are not needed with nvidia-drivers or > > > something like that. > > > > Yes, dri and dri2 are not used by nvidia-drivers, they implement them > > itself. > > > > But X will still try and look for them. > > > > Best way to set up nvidia drivers from scratch is to install and run > > nvidia- settings > > yes, but if nvidia driver make X unoperative, how may I going to be > able to run nvidia-settings? isn't it a xorg-sevrer/nvidia driver > relaetd problem? I'm a bit confused... The ebuild outputs this elog: echo elog "You must be in the video group to use the NVIDIA device" elog "For more info, read the docs at" elog "http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml#doc_chap3_sect6"; elog Is the user in the video group? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:56:08 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > According to this, you did not rebuild nvidia-drivers. Either I did, but did not mention... sorry. > emerge nvidia-drivers > module-rebuild rebuild it only rebuilds nvidia-driver: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.60 Cheers, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:57:28 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:33:22 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > # grep EE Xorg.0.log > > > to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) > > > to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > > > to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > I read something here about dri and dri2 some days ago, but don't > > remember. I think they are not needed with nvidia-drivers or > > something like that. > > > > Yes, dri and dri2 are not used by nvidia-drivers, they implement them > itself. > > But X will still try and look for them. > > Best way to set up nvidia drivers from scratch is to install and run > nvidia- settings yes, but if nvidia driver make X unoperative, how may I going to be able to run nvidia-settings? isn't it a xorg-sevrer/nvidia driver relaetd problem? I'm a bit confused... Thansk for your reply, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:33:22 +0100 Alex Schuster wrote: > Arnau Bria writes: [...] > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "VGA" > > Driver "nvidia" > > VendorName "Unknown" > > BoardName "Unknown" > > EndSection > I would expect vesa to be quite slow. I don't know about nvidia-xconf > and where it comes from, probably because I do not have a nvidia card > any more. Does it really place "vesa" into the config? no, no... there's an error in my xorg.conf, it's not vesa but nvidia, (as I need X for sending mail I had to use vesa driver for starting X and did not remeber to change it in xorg.conf when sending mail... ) :-S > What happens when you replace the "vesa" driver with "nvidia"? emerge > nvidia-drivers if not already done. If this fails, try "nv" instead, > this is the slower open source driver, which should be okay for 2D > acceleration at least. when I use nvidia driver system goes really, really slow. about a minute to change between worksapces, or open an aplication. nv completly freezes my sytem. nvidia-drivers are rebuild after kernel upgrade. > > # grep EE Xorg.0.log > > to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) > > to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > > to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) > > I read something here about dri and dri2 some days ago, but don't > remember. I think they are not needed with nvidia-drivers or > something like that. seem that, but if nvidia-xconfig don't try to load it, why X does? lx-arnau ~ # nvidia-xconfig Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup' New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' lx-arnau ~ # grep dri /etc/X11/xorg.conf ## Load "dri" > There is also X -configure which creates a new xorg.conf, but that > segfaults for some years on my machine. that's what I'm using. > And you could try with hal and no xorg.conf. no, few days ago I explained my hal problems :-) trying with no hal now. > Wonko Thanks for your reply, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:33:22 Alex Schuster wrote: > > # grep EE Xorg.0.log > > to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) > > to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > > to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) > > I read something here about dri and dri2 some days ago, but don't > remember. I think they are not needed with nvidia-drivers or something > like that. > Yes, dri and dri2 are not used by nvidia-drivers, they implement them itself. But X will still try and look for them. Best way to set up nvidia drivers from scratch is to install and run nvidia- settings -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:34:00 Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi all, > > I've rebuild my xorg-server with no hal support, I've upgraded my kernel > to 2.6.30-r8 and rebuild "all" xf86 drivers/libs/proto packages: > > # eix xf86|grep "^\[I\]" > [I] x11-apps/xf86dga > [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev > [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard > [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > [I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv > [I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa > [I] x11-libs/libXxf86dga > [I] x11-libs/libXxf86misc > [I] x11-libs/libXxf86vm > [I] x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto > [I] x11-proto/xf86dgaproto > [I] x11-proto/xf86driproto > [I] x11-proto/xf86miscproto > [I] x11-proto/xf86rushproto > [I] x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto According to this, you did not rebuild nvidia-drivers. Either emerge nvidia-drivers module-rebuild rebuild -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2
Arnau Bria writes: > I've rebuild my xorg-server with no hal support, I've upgraded my > kernel to 2.6.30-r8 and rebuild "all" xf86 drivers/libs/proto > packages: [...] > Then, I use nvidia-xconf for geenrating my xorg.conf file and looks > like: [...] > Section "Device" > Identifier "VGA" > Driver "vesa" > VendorName "Unknown" > BoardName "Unknown" > EndSection > > and when I start X, system goes really slow and I see some > errors/warnings in X log file: I would expect vesa to be quite slow. I don't know about nvidia-xconf and where it comes from, probably because I do not have a nvidia card any more. Does it really place "vesa" into the config? What happens when you replace the "vesa" driver with "nvidia"? emerge nvidia-drivers if not already done. If this fails, try "nv" instead, this is the slower open source driver, which should be okay for 2D acceleration at least. > # grep EE Xorg.0.log > to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) > to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) I read something here about dri and dri2 some days ago, but don't remember. I think they are not needed with nvidia-drivers or something like that. There is also X -configure which creates a new xorg.conf, but that segfaults for some years on my machine. And you could try with hal and no xorg.conf. Wonko
