Bug 85042 – media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1 doesn't work with GeForce FX 5200

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stuart W. Finlayson 2005-03-12 23:26:29 UTC]

I upgraded to nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1, and when I try to startx the screen goes blank, like it's trying to run, but just stays blank.  In addition, once the screen goes blank the keyboard stops responding, so I need to do a hard reboot.

I compared the /var/log/Xorg.0.log files that are generated using nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 (which works) and nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1.  Aside from the versions being different in the output, for the 1.0.7167 version the output dies just before "SetClientVersion: 0 8" and has a different oldVal1 value--for 1.0.6629 oldVal1 = 0x80010004, and for 1.0.7167 oldVal1 = 0x80010044.



Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb  8 2005, 04:11:18)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm arts avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt curl dvd dvdr emboss encode esd fam flac fortran gif gpmimlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Benjamin Schindler (RETIRED) 2005-03-13 13:02:41 UTC]

Same here. This seems to be an issue with the 2.6.10 kernels - I upgraded to 2.6.11 and it works.  This is on amd64 here, but obviously doesn't seem to be arch-specific

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-03-13 13:40:56 UTC]

Stuart, can you also try a new 2.6.11 kernel?

[Comment 3 Stuart W. Finlayson 2005-03-13 17:14:26 UTC]

I just did `emerge sync` and upgraded to x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 from x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r5, now media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1 works using the 2.6.10 kernel.

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-03-14 00:39:50 UTC]

Ok, great.