Bug 124376

Summary:	problem with startx (AMD64/NVidia)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	£ukasz Wierzbicki <wierzbadark>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	amd64
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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