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y-man

Member

From: Ottawa, On, Canada

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 8

HELP: Cannot startx with Nvidia driver

Hi there,

This morning I updated the kernel, and installed nvidia driver.

When I run startx it fails. The tail of Xorg.log shows

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xC0000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xD0000000
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

An additional line just above the first (EE) line in the log appears only on the console startx was run.

NVIDIA: could not open /dev/nvidia0 (Input/outout error).

Same happens both for regular user and root.

I tried chgrp /dev/nvidia files to video, with no difference in the result.

This card runs 3D o.k. with the FC5 64-bit install on this computer with the same driver. So, this is not a hardware issue.

My kernel is

/home/yavuz  ROOT  pacman -Q kernel26
kernel26 2.6.16.14-2

Nvidia driver is from [testing] (8756).

AMD 64 3700+/ GPU 7600 GT

What I should try next?

Thanks in advance...

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y-man

y-man

Member

From: Ottawa, On, Canada

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 8

Re: HELP: Cannot startx with Nvidia driver

After I downloaded full kernel sources, built my custom monolithic kernel, and booted into it, I reinstalled the Arch driver package, and everything is working now.

After each reconfig/rebuild a reinstall is necessary, but that is as it is supposed to be, according to package documentation.

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y-man