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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

I installed xorg-server 1.5RC6 from testing and it didn't work with the current nvidia-71xx driver.

dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers avaible.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Reinstalling it didn't help, so I returned to xorg-server 1.4. (Just reporting )

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takedown

Member

From: Argentina

Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 219

Re: nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

modprobe nvidia?

and... I'm not sure because this log error "Failed to load module "nvidia"" say Fail to load the driver as module

i really don't know...

soy my bad english

andre.ramaciotti

Member

From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

I don't think I have to modprobe nvidia, because xorg-server 1.4 does it automatically.

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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

The legacy drivers don't support xorg-server-1.5:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11360

andre.ramaciotti

Member

From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

It doesn't support but it problably will, right?

I'll wait then. I just wanted to know if you were aware of it.

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andrek

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From: Poland

Registered: 2007-12-27

Posts: 29

Re: nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

This is a very big issue. As I've read somewhere, it seems to be the same situation with the 96xx drivers..

deltaecho

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From: Georgia (USA)

Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 185

Re: nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

I just happened to look at this thread, and noticed the double forward slashes before nvidia_drv.so:

(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so

I've dealt with issues like that before, you may want to locate the config file that contains the location of your driver and change it to reflect only one forward slash:

/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so

Last edited by deltaecho (2008-09-07 21:09:15)

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ckristi

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 225

Re: nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

I'm afraid "/" and "//" means exactly the same thing. Rarely this would give an error (or create a confusion) on Linux systems. Try, for example, cd /usr/share//config... it would get you to /usr/share/config, if I'm not mistaking.

Last edited by ckristi (2008-09-07 22:12:28)

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deltaecho

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From: Georgia (USA)

Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 185

Re: nvidia-71xx and xorg-server 1.5RC6 (testing)

I'm afraid "/" and "//" means exactly the same thing. Rarely this would give an error (or create a confusion) on Linux systems. Try, for example, cd /usr/share//config... it would get you to /usr/share/config, if I'm not mistaking.

"cd /usr/share//config" may work, but I have indeed had issues with kernel modules not being loaded because their specified path contained 2 consecutive forward slashes.  Deleting the extra one fixed the problem.

Edit: Maybe it was a just a Gentoo problem

Last edited by deltaecho (2008-09-07 22:47:28)

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