9 Sep
2003
9 Sep
'03
20:32
On Monday 08 September 2003 21:48, Curtis Rey wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2003 15:11, Jan Elders wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 September 2003 09:15, Curtis Rey wrote:
> > > On Sunday 07 September 2003 03:55, Jan Elders wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > After upgrading my kernel (including the source) with YOU to
> > > > 2.4.20-100, I have downloaded the NVIDIA Installer for Linux IA32.
> > > > Subsequently, I followed the instructions in
> > > > www.suse.de/de/private/download/xfree86/index.html section “SuSE
> > > > Linux 8.2 with update kernel or self-compiled kernel”.
// CUT
> > > > - went to runlevel 5 after installation
> > > > --> No more display ! (remains black) !!!!
> > > > - I solved this by running SaX2 (in Safe Mode) :
> > > > set Monitor model = LCD 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz
> > > > set Color & Resolution = 1024 x 768 - 24 bit
> > > > After this I had my display back, but no 3D !!!!
> > > > Looking in XF86Config shows that Driver is set back to “nv”
> > > > (apparently by SAX2).
> > > > So .... it seems that setting the driver to "nvidia" ruins my system
> > > > ? Or , in other words, I think the new NVidia driver is not working
> > > > correct here.
> > >
> > > Have a look at this page on the SBD, it might help for place to start.
> > > http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/wessels_blackinst.html
> >
> > Yes, I studied this and tried some things, but it seems that the basic
> > problem is setting the driver to 'nvidia' always leads to a black screen
> > (on my system), while 'nv' works all-right.
> > Does everybody else work OK under SuSE 8.2 kernel 2.4.20-100 with the
> > 'nvidia' driver ?
>
> Ok, now one of the problems I have encountered before is bad or incomplete
> symlinks and/or the incomplete removal of old files/symlinks that kludge
> the install. Have a look at the nvidia readme, down about the middle of
> the doc. You'll see something that refers to check the files/symlinks. I
> wouldn't be surprised is you have files that are not being replaced
> properly and somewhere in your system a file is reporting an older version
> -- i.e. 4232 verses the current version.
>
> What you could do is got through the NVIDIA readme and perform some of the
> checks it suggests paste it into a follow up email if your still not having
> any luck.
OK, I went through this excercise.
Not all appears to be well :
1. Suggested check with 'xdpyinfo' does NOT show the "GLX", "NV-GLX" and
"NVIDIA-GLX" extensions ! However I do have the statement Load "glx" in
the Module section of my XF86Config.
Also in /var/log/XFree86.0.log I see the message :
(EE) [GLX]: Failed to add GLX extension (NVIDIA XFree86 driver not found)
This must be the cause of the problem, but what to do about it ?
The driver installation process went all-right as far as I can judge.
2. All symlinks to be checked (as mentioned in Appendix C of the NVidia
README) are correct.
3. The check for correct libraries being used, initially didn't work, because
I have no /usr/X11R6/bin/gears as mentioned in the README.
However, I saw that I do have a "glxgears" in /usr/X11R6/bin.
Running the command ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears gave me a different result
from what is shown in the README.
I get :
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x40027000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40091000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400a0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4016e000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401be000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401e0000)
libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0x40316000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x407ee000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
So apparently phenomenon 1 and maybe 3 above are the cause of my black screen
problem ? But what can I do about it ? I already tried twice to do the driver
installation, carefully following the instructions both times. I probably did
miss something though, but what ?
Cheers,
--
Jan Elders
Nuenen
the Netherlands