Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
HarM, I have only just caught up with this thread.I use the same graphics card.Which I set up with the NVIDIA run. driver and complied the kernel. Would you like me to copy and paste the config 4 file,so you can compare them? Drew - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:11, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where it says: Load glx # 3D layer ...you may need to put: Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so Yo, that line was there in the first place, I commented it out and added the Load glx line and checked the XFreelogs.libgl.so loads from the same location, that's not it. It's vexing...could be a permission thingy but I wouldn't know any other than dri in /etc/console.perms. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Friday 05 December 2003 09:58, Drew Martin wrote: HarM, I have only just caught up with this thread.I use the same graphics card.Which I set up with the NVIDIA run. driver and complied the kernel. Would you like me to copy and paste the config 4 file,so you can compare them? Drew Thanks for offering:) No I don't think that'll be of much use...I'm pretty sure it's the way my kernel (2.4.22-10mdk) handles the modules. All the problems are reproduced on different (3) installs so I'm actually surprised no-one else has had these issues. Looks like I'll first test -run 9.1 to see if that'll play nicely with the card...it could be the card itself. It's been sitting in a box on the shelf for over year now, so actually I'd be surprised if it was broke. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:09 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Hehehehh, are you getting back at me for criticizing yer reply settings?;D grin Of course not! H. shocking mess: no more user/lib/module.deps (or something along that line) H. and an unworkable system:( H. Luckily I can boot from another partition that has / mirrored so no real H. damage except me losing an hour or 2. H. H. What a mess:( H. H. Good luck, H. HarM Oh man, I'm sorry! Thats not what usually happens. :-( I'm certainly glad you had it mirrored though. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 December 2003 11:03, robin wrote: Have you checked for stale GL simlinks? Sir Robin Well lately, no I haven't but I did a fresh test-install on a spare partition which gave me exactly the same errors. Then I'm already grabbing at straws so I might as well do that so's to be sure. I did make sure the nvidia.o module came from the right kernel as well as manually loading it from it's proper directory to be sure. Thanks, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, I'm having a ball getting the proprietary nvidia drivers to work on box for a geforce2 DDR card. I've already tried every trick in the book and a lot that aren't, frying the initrd twice in the process and using every kernel I could get my hands on to boot. Tried all rpm's available as well the nvidia install scriptnutting:( I keep on getting the same error in XFree:NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed The way I read my logs the nvidia gets loaded fine by the kernel but gets deactivated by XFree when it can't use the glx module with /dev/nvidia0.:-/ Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't that. Does this ring any bells or is it a known Mandrake issue I've missed somewhere? Have you checked for stale GL simlinks? Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:31 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and H. there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't H. that. Just a random thought - there are -2- DRI lines in the XF86Config-4 file, did you get them both? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where it says: Load glx # 3D layer ...you may need to put: Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 Dece9mbr 2003 16:13, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:31 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and H. there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't H. that. Just a random thought - there are -2- DRI lines in the XF86Config-4 file, did you get them both? Actually there never was a DRI line in mine. XFdra ke picked that up fine. I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. For instance fsv will not run due to missing openGL support. Running it remotely from a box that's got a rivaTnt card that uses the nv driver, that same fsv will run fine. That's a box running 9.2 in an almost mirrored install, kernel et all but obviously not the nvidia drivers as the riva won't work with those. Maybe I'll give mdk9.1 a test drive again on this box and see what happens then. IIRC it worked fine at the time and installed the nvidia drivers out of the box, or was that 9.0?:-/ Thanks, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:11, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where it says: Load glx # 3D layer ...you may need to put: Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so Yo, that line was there in the first place, I commented it out and added the Load glx line and checked the XFreelogs.libgl.so loads from the same location, that's not it. It's vexing...could be a permission thingy but I wouldn't know any other than dri in /etc/console.perms. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:23, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you do the: chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* thingy? Hehehehh, are you getting back at me for criticizing yer reply settings?;D No, I didn't. Anyway, this is what I get: chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chmod: failed to get attributes of `/dev/nvidia*': No such file or directory lsmod shows no nvidia module loaded. Hey, that's funny I don't remember uninstalling the nvidia kernel. urpmq doesn't show it either..so run nvidia's installer again, I'm definitely getting old. Ok, it installs and removes some stale stuff (at least it gives that impression).lsmod shows nvidia, startx doesn't play ball:( Can't load the modulesheesh! So lets give it a reboot just be sure...a shocking mess: no more user/lib/module.deps (or something along that line) and an unworkable system:( Luckily I can boot from another partition that has / mirrored so no real damage except me losing an hour or 2. What a mess:( Good luck, HarM -- -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
