Nvidia trouble...so weird
Heya gang, I don't know why or how, but when I first installed 9.2 on a spare hdd that shared windows with it, the Nvidia driver installed and worked just fine (though it took twice to get it to take). Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd? Anyway, I'll try to look up in the archives for any answers, unless someone knows something else to try. By the way...what would be the command for removing the Nvidia driver? It's the one I downloaded from Nvidia's website, the 6629 or something like that. Thanks for any help, John
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 1:00 am, John B wrote:
Heya gang,
Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd? Anyway, I'll try to look up in the archives for any answers, unless someone knows something else to try. By the way...what would be the command for removing the Nvidia driver? It's the one I downloaded from Nvidia's website, the 6629 or something like that. You probably already did this, but just in case... have you tried configuring
<snip> the installed driver w/ sax2?
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:18, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 1:00 am, John B wrote:
Heya gang,
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Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd? Anyway, I'll try to look up in the archives for any answers, unless someone knows something else to try. By the way...what would be the command for removing the Nvidia driver? It's the one I downloaded from Nvidia's website, the 6629 or something like that.
You probably already did this, but just in case... have you tried configuring the installed driver w/ sax2?
Yessir, sure have, and that's where I keep getting the 'no screens to be used' message. I've checked and double-checked and on and on, and everything is detected correctly...monitor- NEC Multisync E750, resolution(s) 1024x756 (or whatever it is) and 800x600 and 640x480 just those three resolutions, graphics card- Nvidia geforce4 mx440, I've even tried with a geforce2 400 and it still all does the same thing. Weird huh?
->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "John B" (yonaton@tds.net) wrote: ---------- [...] ...what would be the command for removing the Nvidia driver? [...] <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<- I do these steps if have such problem: 1- rm /etc/X11/XF86Config (Delete the X config) 2- init 3 (exit X) 3- [login as root] 4- sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run 5- sax2 (To create totally new "XF86Config") 6- vi /etc/X11/XF86Config (According to README.txt) Note1: After running "init 3", usually, login-prompt doesn't appear (why?). I use F1-F6 after that, in order to login as root ;-) Note2: According to nVIDIA "README.txt" file: -You can uninstall current version (if installed) by: nvidia-installer --uninstall "Installing new drivers implicitly uninstalls any previous drivers." -Remember that you should do: find the relevant Device section and replace the line: Driver "nv" (or Driver "vesa") with Driver "nvidia" In the Module section, make sure you have: Load "glx" You should also remove the following lines: Load "dri" Load "GLcore" Best Regards, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
John B wrote:
Heya gang,
I don't know why or how, but when I first installed 9.2 on a spare hdd that shared windows with it, the Nvidia driver installed and worked just fine (though it took twice to get it to take). Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd? If the XF86Config that worked is still available, copy it across to this disk. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues, it may reveal the cause. 9.2 installs can go any way from great to pear-shaped. After installing 6629, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I changed Driver "nv" to "nvidia", but that didn't work, so in the vesa section, I kept playing with changing Driver "fbdev" to "nvidia" and eventually got a display. I've since made a new xorg.conf using xorgconfig as the display defaulted to 640x480 for all Modes frequencies in the original, because it somehow picked up the wrong Horiz and Vert frequecies or may be finger trouble on my part.
Addition check =============== lsmod|grep nvidia -- to check the module gets loaded.
Anyway, I'll try to look up in the archives for any answers, unless someone knows something else to try. By the way...what would be the command for removing the Nvidia driver? It's the one I downloaded from Nvidia's website, the 6629 or something like that.
Thanks for any help,
John
The original xorg.conf had sections on vga, vesa, fbdev etc., the one I've generated is more like what I expected to see. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:40, Sid Boyce wrote:
John B wrote:
Heya gang,
I don't know why or how, but when I first installed 9.2 on a spare hdd that shared windows with it, the Nvidia driver installed and worked just fine (though it took twice to get it to take). Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd?
If the XF86Config that worked is still available, copy it across to this disk. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues, it may reveal the cause. 9.2 installs can go any way from great to pear-shaped. After installing 6629, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I changed Driver "nv" to "nvidia", but that didn't work, so in the vesa section, I kept playing with changing Driver "fbdev" to "nvidia" and eventually got a display. I've since made a new xorg.conf using xorgconfig as the display defaulted to 640x480 for all Modes frequencies in the original, because it somehow picked up the wrong Horiz and Vert frequecies or may be finger trouble on my part.
Nothing in the log helps, only one single line with an error and it's what was displayed when I tried to run the 'test' in sax2. If I try to change the driver from 'nv' to nvidia', what should I do afterwards, just reboot? There was no 'vesa' nor 'fbdev' sections in my xorg.conf...is this bad?
Addition check =============== lsmod|grep nvidia -- to check the module gets loaded.
Nothing happened. What should have happened? John
John B wrote:
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:40, Sid Boyce wrote:
John B wrote:
Heya gang,
I don't know why or how, but when I first installed 9.2 on a spare hdd that shared windows with it, the Nvidia driver installed and worked just fine (though it took twice to get it to take). Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd?
If the XF86Config that worked is still available, copy it across to this disk. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues, it may reveal the cause. 9.2 installs can go any way from great to pear-shaped. After installing 6629, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I changed Driver "nv" to "nvidia", but that didn't work, so in the vesa section, I kept playing with changing Driver "fbdev" to "nvidia" and eventually got a display. I've since made a new xorg.conf using xorgconfig as the display defaulted to 640x480 for all Modes frequencies in the original, because it somehow picked up the wrong Horiz and Vert frequecies or may be finger trouble on my part.
Nothing in the log helps, only one single line with an error and it's what was displayed when I tried to run the 'test' in sax2. If I try to change the driver from 'nv' to nvidia', what should I do afterwards, just reboot? At the boot prompt, enter 3 on the option line and after you've logged in as root, issue sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run After that builds "init 5", if you get thrown back into a VC, you can do "init 3" as you need to be in runlevel 3 in order to build the driver, make any changes like changing "nv" to "nvidia", then "init 5".
There was no 'vesa' nor 'fbdev' sections in my xorg.conf...is this bad?
No, it may just have been the way my xorg.conf got built during the 9.2 install.
Addition check =============== lsmod|grep nvidia -- to check the module gets loaded.
Nothing happened. What should have happened?
John
# lsmod|grep nvidia nvidia 3466268 12 nvidia_agp 7516 1 agpgart 33128 2 nvidia_agp That means the nvidia module didn't load automatically if nvidia wasn't shown with lsmod, /etc/modprobe.conf should have a line "alias char-major-195* nvidia" so it fires up at boot, but manually you can issue "modprobe nvidia", then check it's loaded, if it complains, /var/log/nvidia-installer.log should be checked to see that it built and installed properly ---- # ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/ . .. nvidia.ko # Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
Forget all that, how do you get it to USE your kernel-source? I've used --kernel-source-path, it appears to find it but just dies. This is a sad way to install a driver. Given all of the posts, the "way" to do doesn't appear to be uniform for every implementation. -- <<JAV>>
Joe Polk wrote:
Forget all that, how do you get it to USE your kernel-source? I've used --kernel-source-path, it appears to find it but just dies. This is a sad way to install a driver. Given all of the posts, the "way" to do doesn't appear to be uniform for every implementation.
-- <<JAV>>
OK..... I see your problem.
cd /usr/src/
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:56 -0400, Joe Polk wrote:
Forget all that, how do you get it to USE your kernel-source? I've used --kernel-source-path, it appears to find it but just dies. This is a sad way to install a driver. Given all of the posts, the "way" to do doesn't appear to be uniform for every implementation.
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cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig && make prepare-all sh /path/to/NVIDIA-installerxxxx.run -q --kernel-source=/usr/src/linux (assuming that is the symlink to the actual kernel source) as specified in the SuSE readme on the NVIDIA site. David -- "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance" -Sam Brown
I've seen on my machines where you have to manually do a modprobe nvidia depmod before going to init 5 If you want to uninstall the command is NVIDIAxxxxxxx.run --uninstall B-) On Tuesday 16 November 2004 11:00 pm, John B wrote:
Heya gang,
I don't know why or how, but when I first installed 9.2 on a spare hdd that shared windows with it, the Nvidia driver installed and worked just fine (though it took twice to get it to take). Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd? Anyway, I'll try to look up in the archives for any answers, unless someone knows something else to try. By the way...what would be the command for removing the Nvidia driver? It's the one I downloaded from Nvidia's website, the 6629 or something like that.
Thanks for any help,
John
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