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uzbirglones

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From: São Carlos - SP - Brazil

Registered: 2007-06-01

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nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

Hi;... lately X.org is crashing while loading... i've tried with 2 cards (geforce 2 mx400 and geforce fx5200) with the same output:

[   259.330] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[   259.331] dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined sym$
[   259.331] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[   259.331] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[   259.331] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
[   259.331] (EE) No drivers available.

so... what do i do?

thanks

p.s.: it's worth to mention, i was using nvidia-96xx drivers with geforce 2 mx400 and nvidia-173xx with fx5200...

Last edited by uzbirglones (2010-10-12 17:03:26)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

Downgrade to xorg 1.8 and wait for the drivers to catch up to xorg 1.9.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105728

Last edited by karol (2010-10-12 16:10:44)

wonder

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Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

nvidia-173xx 173.14.28 has xorg-server 1.9 support
nvidia-96xx doesn't have it yet.

if  173.14.28  doesn't work for you, send the report to nvidia.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Last edited by wonder (2010-10-12 16:21:53)

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uzbirglones

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From: São Carlos - SP - Brazil

Registered: 2007-06-01

Posts: 24

Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

thanks karol and wonder

i'm succesfully running x.org 1.8 with 96xx drivers right now... but yet the 173xx drivers are not running, neither with x.org 1.8 nor 1.9... guess i'm sending a report to nvidia

at least my desktop is running ok now... thanks for the tips!

karol

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Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

1.8 + 173xx is working here, check your configs, reboot after install.

1LordAnubis

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Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

1.9 & 173xx works on the 6800

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uzbirglones

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From: São Carlos - SP - Brazil

Registered: 2007-06-01

Posts: 24

Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

1.8 + 173xx is working here, check your configs, reboot after install.

1.9 & 173xx works on the 6800

Ok, ppl, I'm gonna try a -Syu tonight and see if it works...

for now, thank you very very much for the help... I can't stand using "another OS" at home...

Leonid.I

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Registered: 2009-03-22

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Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

I have switched to nouveau back in September, anticipating the compatibilty problems with Xserver 1.8, 1.9.

On my MX440 nouveau's 2D accel is better than nvidia-96xx and 3D is going to come with mesa 7.9.

As long as factory drivers are concerned, the main dealbreaker for me was the absence of KMS.

Last edited by Leonid.I (2010-10-13 18:54:50)

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uzbirglones

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From: São Carlos - SP - Brazil

Registered: 2007-06-01

Posts: 24

Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

I have switched to nouveau back in September, anticipating the compatibilty problems with Xserver 1.8, 1.9.

On my MX440 nouveau's 2D accel is better than nvidia-96xx and 3D is going to come with mesa 7.9.

As long as factory drivers are concerned, the main dealbreaker for me was the absence of KMS.

Which nouveau driver r u using? there are 3 nouveau drivers in extra repo:
xf86-video-nouveau
nouveau-dri
nouveau-drm-lts

for anyone of those, is it just put "nouveau" in the video driver section in xorg.conf?

karol

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Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

xf86-video-nouveau is the 2D driver.

Leonid.I

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Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 999

Re: nvidia 173 [partialy SOLVED]

xf86-video-nouveau is the 2D driver.

Right. 3D support is in /testing/nouveau-dri (which also fixes FS#20980).

EDIT: Regarding configuration. If you only have nouveau installed, then I believe that you can rely on the autoconfiguration capabilities of Xserver. Otherwise, here is mine xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "DontZap" "on"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nouveau"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by Leonid.I (2010-10-15 15:22:38)

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