[solved - no error here...] 1) GeForce 7600 GT and black Xorg

Stalafin · 2009-04-19 15:28:36

I am running a GeForce 7600 GT and am not able to get my X-Server running. But apparently that seems to be normal with the latest driver and is supposed to be fixed.

Sooo... I thought I'd try the beta, with the result being that I was not able to get anything running - the package from AUR for some obscure reason does not give me an 'nvidia.ko' kernel module, which I have no way of understanding why. Is there any way to check why this happens?

Last edited by Stalafin (2009-04-21 15:12:26)

jspaces · 2009-04-20 04:28:58

I have a nVidia 7600GT with the latest kernel and X works fine.

#pacman -Q nvidia
nvidia 180.44-1

lspci | grep nVidia
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)

uname -a
Linux jcore 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 12:39:28 CEST 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Here is my xorg.conf.

[Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
#       FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#       FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "record"
        #   Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
        Option      "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "cherryblue"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option      "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "USB Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option      "Protocol" "Auto"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors
 # Very conservative. May flicker.
#       VertRefresh  50.0 - 62.0 # Extreme conservative. Will flicker. TFT default.
        #  Default modes distilled from
        #      "VESA and Industry Standards and Guide for Computer Display Monitor
        #       Timing", version 1.0, revision 0.8, adopted September 17, 1998.
        #  $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/vesamodes,v 1.4 1999/11/18 16:52:17 tsi Exp $
        # 640x350 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Acer"
        ModelName    "X203w"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
        VertRefresh  55.0 - 75.0
        DisplaySize  435.5 273
        Option      "CalcAlgorithm"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
        Option       "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "All"
        BoardName   "All"
        Card        "NVIDIA GeForce"
        Option      "NoLogo" "True"
        Option      "RenderAccel" "True"
        Option      "TripleBuffer" "True"
        # This option causes plasmoid to crash.
        #Option      "BackingStore" "True"
        Option      "PixmapCacheSize" "300000"
        Option      "OnDemandVBlankinterrupts" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     1
                Modes    "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     4
                Modes    "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     8
                Modes    "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     15
                Modes    "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     32
                Modes    "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        "video"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option       "Composite" "on"
EndSection

Hope this helps, I have not tried the beta driver so I can not comment on it not producing nvidia.ko.

Stalafin · 2009-04-21 09:53:52

Alright; I have tried your configuration, it didn't work; all I am getting is a pitchblack X server screen - nothing whatsoever.

Besides - you are not supposed to have anything about DRI written in your Xorg.conf, as far as I remember. But that only on a sidenote.

Stalafin · 2009-04-21 15:11:27

This is hereby solved; everything was working fine. I expected that I am supposed to get some sort of an x-mouse cursor, which I didn't. Tried out an X-app and everything works just fine.

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#1 2009-04-19 15:28:36

[solved - no error here...] 1) GeForce 7600 GT and black Xorg

#2 2009-04-20 04:28:58

Re: [solved - no error here...] 1) GeForce 7600 GT and black Xorg

#3 2009-04-21 09:53:52

Re: [solved - no error here...] 1) GeForce 7600 GT and black Xorg

#4 2009-04-21 15:11:27

Re: [solved - no error here...] 1) GeForce 7600 GT and black Xorg

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