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Bug 124376 - problem with startx (AMD64/NVidia)
Summary: problem with startx (AMD64/NVidia)
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Other
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: X11 External Driver Maintainers
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: 124374 124375 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2006-02-28 01:20 UTC by £ukasz Wierzbicki
Modified: 2006-03-24 13:50 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description £ukasz Wierzbicki 2006-02-28 01:20:04 UTC 
i install xorg, nvidia devices...and when i want to startx I see blackscreen. Using trl+alt+backspace doesn't work. 
I read manual...and try to do as there war writen...but there is no efect:( 
i look to var/log/xorg.0.log and found that: 

(II)Loading Extension NV-GLX 
(EE)NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier. 
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleratiion architecture 
(--)NVIDIA(0):Backing store disabled 
(--)NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled 
(II)NVIDIA(0): Loading extension NV-Control 

Fatal Server Error: 
Caught Signal 11. Server aborting 

my card is : PCI E GeForce 6600 

(one time for a short time i see nvidia's logo )
Comment 1 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-28 01:25:05 UTC 
*** Bug 124374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-28 01:26:28 UTC 
*** Bug 124375 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-28 20:34:24 UTC 
what version of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx are you using ? please add your emerge info.
Comment 4 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-24 13:50:11 UTC 
Insufficient info and no response from user.  If you are using a laptop, you will need to add this to /etc/modules.d/nvidia:

option nvidia NVreg_Mobile=1

Then run modules-update