[QCLUG] Another video problem

[Austin Mount]

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if you get to the point where you give up or want a gui while your
working on it you can use the vesa driver... should work for any modern
card and give you 1024x768... 

i attached one of my xorg config for nvidia
if it helps... its for dual screen w/ xinerama not twin view but might be
useful to you... 

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:12:27 -0500, Jim Hall  wrote:  On
Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Austin Mount  wrote:
 didn't read completely
through your thread but just fyi the kernel module that is part of the
vanilla source doesn't play nice with another one...

 not sure on your
distro but in gentoo you build the kernel without any nvidia frame buffer
support or otherwise then emerge nvidia-drivers and it builds and the
proprietary drives makes and installs the proper kernel module...

 if
you're running ubuntu or something with a live kernel that autodetects
stuff it may be installing the module that is part of vanilla kernel source
and then throwing up when loading the one from nvidia...

 anywho just a
thought to look into...

 Austin D. Mount
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 Jim Hall wrote:
  On Wed, Aug
26, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Chris Cooper > wrote:

 Just throwing out a long shot,
but have you tried booting on an older
 kernel in case the driver likes
that, or there is an older version of
 the driver in that kernel's mods?


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Jim Hall> wrote:
 > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009
at 9:26 PM, Christopher Kruse
 > > wrote:
 >>
 >> I'd make sure that the
kernel is fully accepting the nvidia binary
 >> blob; check dmesg and see
if it has any module insertion
 errors. If
 >> not, run `lsmod | grep
nvidia` to see if you have the kernel module
 >> loaded. It may be as
simple as that.
 >>
 >> Other culprits: check /var/log/Xorg.*.log to see
what it's
 >> specifically failing on.
 >>
 >> Cheers,
 >>
 >> Christopher

>>
 >>
 >>
 > Results. dmesg is as pure as the driven snow. Kernel module
is
 loaded.
 > Xort.*.log shows no failures. Went through Nvidia's
knowledge
 base, made a
 > couple of changes in "xorg.conf", nothing.
 >
 >
System boots fine until it gets to Xorg and GDM. Then get black
 screen.
If
 > go to a different runlevel I get a console, but all of Nvidia's

config files
 > are binary and need a GUI to work. Catch 22.
 >
 > Don't
know what to try next.
 >
 > Jim
 >

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 Just tried that. No
difference. I believe that's because older linux kernel has older nvidia
kernel module which doesn't match driver on HD.

 I'm fairly certain this
is some stupid config problem, but I don't know what or where. Even if I
got a 640x480 GUI, I'd have something to work with.

 Jim     
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I used the .run file from
Nvidia. It worked on my Debian Lenny box. This one is Debian Etch. I ran
lsmod and it says the correct nvidia kernel is installed as a
module.

Jim

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