[SOLVED] Can't load XBMC on Zotac ION MB. 'NVIDIA' taints kernel

JuanSinMiedo · 2009-10-25 10:47:44

[SOLVED]

Hi everyone.
I'm an archlinux newbie trying to install XBMC on a Zotac ION ITX motherboard. I followed wiki instructions (beguinner's guide, Xorg, etc) and finally got a working system with X working (tested with xterm and mouse and keyboard worked flawlessly) and everything seemed fine. But when I try to run xbmc
I get the following error:

Error unable to open display
XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
Install an appropiate graphics driver.
Cannot get root display. Is X11 running and is your DISPLAY variable set?

I have the nvidia driver installed and configured in xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Fri Aug 14 17:54:58 PDT 2009


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth   24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    Depth      24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

dmesg guives me the following message:

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

After reading this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76890 I thought it could be a problem with a USB devices, so I tried disconnecting all of them. It didn't work. I also looked for the ra73 module with modprobe -l|grep ra73 (even though I don't have a USB WiFi dongle). Nothing

I can't see any problem in lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
nfsd                  257388  9
exportfs                4284  1 nfsd
nfs                   302544  0
lockd                  72780  2 nfsd,nfs
fscache                44688  1 nfs
nfs_acl                 2908  2 nfsd,nfs
auth_rpcgss            38208  2 nfsd,nfs
sunrpc                192448  13 nfsd,nfs,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
ipv6                  279636  30
ext2                   68964  1
snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi     5372  1
arc4                    1756  2
ecb                     2812  2
snd_hda_codec_realtek   210080  1
usbhid                 40768  0
hid                    42528  1 usbhid
snd_seq_dummy           2720  0
snd_seq_oss            31232  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7036  1 snd_seq_oss
ath9k                 238964  0
snd_hda_intel          27528  0
snd_seq                53808  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6792  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_codec          72700  3 snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
mac80211              155532  1 ath9k
snd_pcm_oss            40320  0
snd_hwdep               7712  1 snd_hda_codec
ati_remote             10436  0
led_class               4000  1 ath9k
snd_pcm                74464  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss          17564  1 snd_pcm_oss
ath                     7708  1 ath9k
nvidia               9592584  0
snd_timer              21156  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
fan                     4448  0
agpgart                32660  1 nvidia
snd                    58820  11 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_seq_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_mixer_oss,snd_timer
cfg80211               90428  3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
soundcore               6944  1 snd
battery                10816  0
ohci_hcd               24172  0
ac                      4224  0
shpchp                 34384  0
i2c_nforce2             6944  0
wmi                     6600  0
evdev                  10240  4
ehci_hcd               36652  0
rfkill                 19728  1 cfg80211
snd_page_alloc          8900  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
processor              36076  0
button                  5612  0
thermal                13912  0
pcspkr                  2492  0
pci_hotplug            28732  1 shpchp
sg                     27728  0
usbcore               154032  5 usbhid,ati_remote,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
i2c_core               21808  2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
forcedeth              56712  0
rtc_cmos               11344  0
rtc_core               17976  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 2524  1 rtc_core
ext3                  133988  4
jbd                    49136  1 ext3
mbcache                 7104  2 ext2,ext3
sd_mod                 28344  8
ata_generic             4704  0
pata_acpi               4252  0
ahci                   36844  6
libata                169260  3 ata_generic,pata_acpi,ahci
scsi_mod              112404  3 sg,sd_mod,libata

I thought about installing nvidia nouveau drivers, but I've read that would loose the accelerated hardware support I need for XBMC.

I'm lost. I don't have a single clue of what to do or how to solve the problem. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advanced.

Last edited by JuanSinMiedo (2009-10-26 15:11:01)

flamelab · 2009-10-25 11:09:32

Reinstall them and then leave only these in the xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x3333"
Option "Coolbits" "1"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

and reboot.

JuanSinMiedo · 2009-10-25 11:50:16

I've reinstalled the nvidia driver (nvidia-185.18.36-2) and changed xorg.conf as you said. Still the same error. Nothing seems to have changed.

Any other ideas?

ould · 2009-10-25 12:08:34

JuanSinMiedo wrote:

dmesg guives me the following message:

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

The nvidia license error is normal.

Are you sure you are running XBMC from within X? Like from xterm or .xinitrc? It sounds like you are running it from a non X environment. The way I run it on my HTPC's is from .xinitrc so that when I run startx/xinit it automatically runs XBMC fullscreen. For example here is one of my .xinitrc files:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
#nvidia-settings --load-config-only &
exec xbmc --standalone
#nvidia-settings
#exec xterm

As you can see currently everything is commented out except "exec xbmc --standalone", try editing your .xinitrc with that line and then do a "startx" or "xinit" and see if that helps.

Kevin

JuanSinMiedo · 2009-10-25 13:19:05

You were right. I was trying to run xbmc from CLI just by typing xbmc and pressing enter (as this tutorial from XBMC explained: http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_inst … Step_Guide). I understood that x will automatically run when I started xbmc (now I know I was wrong).

Thanks a lot for your help people.

Just another question: to have my user boot straight away in XBMC without login/password, I will be doing this:

Add this in /etc/inittab:

x:5:respawn:/bin/su <YOUR_XBMC_USERNAME> -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c startx >/dev/null 2>&1"

and comment out all other lines beginning with x:5:. And boot directly into runlevel 5 by changing id:3:initdefault to

id:5:initdefault

Is that right?

PD: Thanks to everyone for their great job with Arch Linux. I've been using GNU/Linux for about 5 years and it's now that I'm learning how it works inside (and it's easier this way). Steep lerning curve, high reward.

graysky · 2009-10-25 13:47:43

Hmm.. I have the same MB as you running arch i686 w/ the nvidia driver. I just installed the xbmc packages to test it and running /opt/xbmc/bin/xbmc form a shell loads it up just fine. This is through xfce though... not in standalone mode.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"

#       Load  "record"
#       Load  "dri2"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
#    Load           "type1"
#    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "DontZap" "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Samsung"
    ModelName      "SyncMaster T220"
    Option         "DPI" "96x96"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8400 GS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by graysky (2009-10-25 13:49:23)

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#1 2009-10-25 10:47:44

[SOLVED] Can't load XBMC on Zotac ION MB. 'NVIDIA' taints kernel

#2 2009-10-25 11:09:32

Re: [SOLVED] Can't load XBMC on Zotac ION MB. 'NVIDIA' taints kernel

#3 2009-10-25 11:50:16

Re: [SOLVED] Can't load XBMC on Zotac ION MB. 'NVIDIA' taints kernel

#4 2009-10-25 12:08:34

Re: [SOLVED] Can't load XBMC on Zotac ION MB. 'NVIDIA' taints kernel

#5 2009-10-25 13:19:05

Re: [SOLVED] Can't load XBMC on Zotac ION MB. 'NVIDIA' taints kernel

#6 2009-10-25 13:47:43

Re: [SOLVED] Can't load XBMC on Zotac ION MB. 'NVIDIA' taints kernel

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