The ebuild of the nvidia driver does not install right. After it compleates successfully (presumably) every time you try to run the xserver it is not able to find the module. At the same time modprobe nvidia give you no error. I have tried this on both kernel 2.6.9-rc3 and the final 2.6.9 and it happens on both. I have no such problem with the official nvidia release so it is not a configuration problem at all. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge nvidia-kernel 2.startx Actual Results: error message saying that module nvidia cannot be found. Xorg server fails.
Please do the following rmmod nvidia emerge -C nvidia-kernel emerge nvidia-kernel modprobe nvidia Then post the output of : dmesg |tail
here's the output. I uninstalled the nvidia (official) driver and then followed the directions posted. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:02:00.0 into 4x mode NTFS volume version 3.1. NTFS-fs error (device hdd1): load_system_files(): Volume is dirty. Mounting read-only. Run chkdsk and mount in Windows. bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363). ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 13:12:51 PST 2004 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 13:12:51 PST 2004 When you try to load X it still comes up with an error message that the nvidia module could not be found and xorg fails to load. Still have no problems using xorg with the official driver though.
Please post : emerge info Also run lsmod check the driver is listed. This is weird.
lsmod shows the module as present however the xserver says that the module is unavailable. This is probably the weirdest thing I have seen. I am not sure what you mean by the emerge info. Emerge finishes successfully. I'll post the actual output in a sec.
Run : emerge info post its output
ok here's emerge info: Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-ck3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-ck3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd f77 fam famd flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imlib ithreads java jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype udev x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" here's the result from emerge nvidia-kernel: Calculating dependencies x86 x86 x86 >>> Unpacking source... [32;01m*[0m /usr/src/linux is a symbolic link [32;01m*[0m Determining the real directory of the Linux kernel source code [32;01m*[0m Building for Linux 2.6.9-ck3 found in /usr/src/linux Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1 Verifying archive integrity... OK Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-6629......................................................................................................................................................................................................... [32;01m*[0m Applying conftest_koutput_includes.patch ... [A[121G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m Applying nv-pgd_offset.patch ... [A[121G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m Applying nv-disable-preempt-on-smp_processor_id.patch ... [A[121G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m Applying nv-shutup-warnings.patch ... [A[121G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m >>> Source unpacked. x86 [32;01m*[0m Using /usr/src/linux as kernel output location NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... make CC=cc KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv modules mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.tmp_versions make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv echo \#define NV_COMPILER \"`cc -v 2>&1 | tail -n 1`\" > /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv_compiler.h cc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.nv.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -pipe -msoft-float 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-Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.nv-vm.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-unit-at-a-time -march=athlon -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -I/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -fno-common -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=6629 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DNV_REMAP_PAGE_RANGE_5 -DNV_CHANGE_PAGE_ATTR_PRESENT -DNV_PCI_DISABLE_DEVICE_PRESENT -DNV_CLASS_SIMPLE_CREATE_PRESENT -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME=nv_vm -DKBUILD_MODNAME=nvidia -c -o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv-vm.o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv-vm.c cc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.os-agp.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-unit-at-a-time -march=athlon -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -I/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -fno-common -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=6629 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DNV_REMAP_PAGE_RANGE_5 -DNV_CHANGE_PAGE_ATTR_PRESENT -DNV_PCI_DISABLE_DEVICE_PRESENT -DNV_CLASS_SIMPLE_CREATE_PRESENT -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME=os_agp -DKBUILD_MODNAME=nvidia -c -o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-agp.o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-agp.c cc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.os-interface.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-unit-at-a-time -march=athlon -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -I/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -fno-common -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=6629 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DNV_REMAP_PAGE_RANGE_5 -DNV_CHANGE_PAGE_ATTR_PRESENT -DNV_PCI_DISABLE_DEVICE_PRESENT -DNV_CLASS_SIMPLE_CREATE_PRESENT -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME=os_interface -DKBUILD_MODNAME=nvidia -c -o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-interface.o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-interface.c cc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.os-registry.o.d -nostdinc 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scripts/mod/modpost -i /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-ck3/Module.symvers vmlinux /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.o cc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.nvidia.mod.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-unit-at-a-time -march=athlon -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -DKBUILD_BASENAME=nvidia -DKBUILD_MODNAME=nvidia -DMODULE -c -o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.c ld -m elf_i386 -r -o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.o /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.o NVIDIA: left KBUILD. x86 >>> Test phase [not enabled]: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 x86 >>> Install nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 into /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/image/ category media-video man: >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/image/ x86 x86 [32;01m*[0m If you need to load the module automatically on boot up you need [32;01m*[0m to add "nvidia" to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 [32;01m*[0m This module will now work correctly under udev, you do not need to [32;01m*[0m manually create the devices anymore. [33;01m*[0m If you are using 2.6.10-r1-(bk|mm)[0-9]*, please note that you might have [33;01m*[0m to disable the kernel agp driver, and use NVAGP instead, as there are some [33;01m*[0m unresolved issues with some kernel agp drivers ... [32;01m*[0m Checking kernel module dependencies [32;01m*[0m Caching service dependencies ... [A[121G [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m x86 ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run >>> Merging media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 to / --- /etc/ --- /etc/modules.d/ >>> /etc/modules.d/nvidia --- /lib/ --- /lib/modules/ --- /lib/modules/2.6.9-ck3/ --- /lib/modules/2.6.9-ck3/video/ >>> /lib/modules/2.6.9-ck3/video/nvidia.ko --- /usr/ --- /usr/share/ --- /usr/share/doc/ >>> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/ >>> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629/README.gz --- /sbin/ >>> /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh >>> media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 merged. >>> Recording media-video/nvidia-kernel in "world" favorites file... >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Hope that helps.
Do you have: ----- $ ls /dev/nvidia* /dev/nvidia /dev/nvidia0 /dev/nvidiactl -----
Can we have Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf attached aswell please.
I have what looks to be the same issue, have not tried the nvidia kernel. I am on an amd64 and have keywords amd64 ~amd64 I am running a nptl, udev, hal, ivman lsmod shows .... nvidia 4047452 0 .... $ ls /dev/nvidia* /dev/nvidia0 /dev/nvidiactl no /dev/nvidia showing
Weird sorry for the double post
Created attachment 43965 [details] log of startx
Created attachment 43966 [details] xorg.conf
Went to log when examining it i fouind something previously missed as I was only looking at the nvidia I missed that glx wasn't working switched back to xorg-x11 reisntalled nvidia-glx then opengl-update nvidia that seemed to get me further in here is where I got to
My motherboard died and currently I am firced to work on another computer. So untill I sort this situation out I can't post any log files or anythign else like that. However, as far as the xorg.config file goes there is nothing wrong with it because Xorg starts just fine when I use the binary Nvidia release of the drivers instead of the ebuild (like I said). It is very possible that one of the devices does not get created for whever reason. However, the problem with this is that xorg would then quit saying that a device is missing and instead the error is that the module could not be loaded. Anyway, I will get some of the old hardware together and give it another shot and then post the log files. Meanwhile I have to deal with all the isues that come from using a radeon board kernel 2.6 and the ati-drivers which are compatible with nothing ...
If anybody wants to deal with this in the future they are welcome to reopen the bug. For now though, I am closing the bug.
reopening
Closing with the proper resolution.
