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Pilli

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Registered: 2004-09-01

Posts: 46

[SOLVED] NVidia driver for Dell XPS1340 (GeForce 9400M G)

Hi.

I don't know which nvidia driver install for my laptop, Dell XPS 1340. Before i had installed nvidia-173xx but now this driver doesn't work with new xorg-server (http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 20001.html).

I've kernel26-pae and i've install nvidia-pae driver, after installation i config with nvidia-xconfig but when i run startx i get this error:

..........
[  1210.888] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[  1217.522] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:2:0:0.  Please
[  1217.522] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1):     check your system's kernel log for additional error
[  1217.522] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1):     messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common Problems in the
[  1217.522] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1):     README for additional information.
[  1217.522] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
[  1217.523] 
Backtrace:
[  1217.523] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0x80a38e7]
[  1217.523] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x5faea) [0x80a7aea]
[  1217.523] 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb779540c]
[  1217.523] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0xb52c3000+0x471698) [0xb5734698]
[  1217.523] Segmentation fault at address (nil)
[  1217.523] 
Fatal server error:
[  1217.523] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[  1217.523] 
[  1217.523] 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
     at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  1217.523] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  1217.523] 

lspci | grep VGA output is:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce G210M] (rev a2)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M G] (rev b1)

xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 270.41.03  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-02.nvidia.com)  Sat Apr  9 00:26:11 PDT 2011

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

Section "Files"
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 "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
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
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Can anybody help me?

Thanks and best regards.

Last edited by Pilli (2011-04-14 11:48:58)

Pilli

Member

Registered: 2004-09-01

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] NVidia driver for Dell XPS1340 (GeForce 9400M G)

Hi.

To fix this problem i've to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add to kernel line  vmalloc=192M option.

More information here: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … ssues.html at Kernel virtual address space exhaustion on the X86 platform section.

I hope this can help someone

Thanks.