xorg + nvidia = bad news
Maynard Kuona
knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za
Wed Mar 24 10:35:19 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 04:45, Tommy McNeely wrote:
> Followup to my own post :)
>
> I switched back to kernel 2.6.1 (listed below) and the kudzu hangs.. but I
> went interactive, skipped kudzu.. recompiled my kernel module for 2.6.1
> and voila :) I am back to using my fancy closed source video driver..
> looks like 2.6.3 is what made it unhappy, not xorg
>
> HOWEVER! gdm is still fscked :)
>
> tommy
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:31:03 -0700, Tommy McNeely wrote:
>
> > Well,
> >
> > I finally trashed up2date.. the "some sort of I/O error occurred, not a
> > gzip'd file" was getting really old.. yum, however, seems to work just
> > fine (although it takes a fricken eternity to download the headers the
> > first time). I followed the various people's steps to get xorg installed
> > on FC2t1. it worked.. I even enabled the "ld.so.conf.d" stuff before I did
> > xorg, and I didn't have to re-add the X11 lib path. I did, however have to
> > add xfs back (chkconfig --add xfs).
> >
> > Along with xorg, I updated approximately 300 other packages, so this may
> > or may not have anything to do with xorg. Anyways, when I rebooted, I went
> > through the normal re-compiling of the nvidia kernel module (I think
> > "nvidia-installer -f -K") .. and when I did a "startx" it went to a black
> > screen and just sat there.. couldn't even ping the box anymore.. so I
> > reset.. and it hung again during RHGB.. so I turned that off and it hung
> > when it tried to go to init 5... so I booted to the non-smp kernel (cause
> > it wouldn't have the nvidia driver and would nicely fail).. and changed my
> > XF86Config to use the "nv" driver... now X starts, but GDM is still hosed.
> > I get a black screen with an "X" cursor.. if I move the mouse or touch the
> > keyboard gdm crashes, and comes up to a blue screen saying stuff about how
> > there is already an X server running.. bla bla bla.. X didn't crash.. its
> > still there in F7 .. so.. I killed that off and ran startx manually .. and
> > that seems to work.. ofcourse minus the login screen (gdm) and the dual
> > head (TwinView) .. since I never logout, I could really care less about
> > GDM, but if someone has a tip on getting nvidia to work, I would be
> > greateful :)
> >
> > [root at cookies root]# rpm -qa | grep xorg
> > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-twm-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-sdk-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-xauth-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-devel-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-font-utils-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-base-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-tools-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-cyrillic-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-xdm-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-doc-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-syriac-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-libs-data-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-xfs-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-Xnest-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-libs-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-Xvfb-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-truetype-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
> > [root at cookies root]# uname -a
> > Linux cookies.central.sun.com 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 #1 Fri Mar 12 14:01:55 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> > [root at cookies root]# rpm -q kernel-smp
> > kernel-smp-2.6.1-1.65
> > kernel-smp-2.6.3-2.1.242
> > kernel-smp-2.6.3-2.1.253
> > kernel-smp-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
> > [root at cookies root]#
> >
> > all updates as of (NOW) :)
> >
> > 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 0037
> > Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
> > Memory at 52000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
> > Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> > Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
> >
> > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Tommy
>
>
It is something about xorg which I had issues with. You need to change
your font path in XF86Config. I have attached my XF86Config for you.
I noticed that when I removed XF86Config, gdm started properly. I have
an NVidia card, so it should work well for you too. The old font path
which was "unix/:7100" doesn't seem to work too well.
I got my font path from the X server logs.
-------------- next part --------------
# XFree86 4 configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
# Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "JD177"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
# Driver "nv"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
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