Bug 159875

Summary:	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9631 produces a black screen
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	NVidia bug report log xorg.conf file Xorg log file

Description Patrick ALLAERT 2007-01-03 10:14:18 UTC

While upgrading from nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9631, starting X just display a black screen. I have to downgrade to use X.

Laptop: DELL Latitude C840
Card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] (rev a3)

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-03 10:15:52 UTC

Kindly review http://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity

Reopen with nvidia-bug-report.sh output, xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log attached.

Comment 2 Patrick ALLAERT 2007-01-07 20:01:30 UTC

Created attachment 105927 [details]
NVidia bug report log

Comment 3 Patrick ALLAERT 2007-01-07 20:02:25 UTC

Created attachment 105929 [details]
xorg.conf file

Comment 4 Patrick ALLAERT 2007-01-07 20:04:48 UTC

Created attachment 105931 [details]
Xorg log file

Before trying this version of nvidia-drivers, I removed /var/log/Xorg.*
No /var/log/Xorg.0.log, only this one

Comment 5 Patrick ALLAERT 2007-01-07 20:15:03 UTC

Last line of Xorg.93.log is interesting:
(EE) Error loading keymap /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled/server-93.xkm

$ ls -la /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled/
total 49
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   136 2007-01-07 20:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root   680 2006-11-27 12:06 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   644 2007-01-04 12:58 README.compiled
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   231 2006-04-21 11:59 server-0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 40258 2006-04-21 12:19 server-0.xkb

Someone certainly know the origin of this "93" in place of "0", but I don't :-S Could someone explain me ?

Sorry for having marked this original bug as blocker, in fact I wanted to prevent this ebuild to be stabilized because it IS blocking. I thought the scope of "blocker" was limited to the area of the concerned application/version.

Comment 6 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-16 17:21:38 UTC

This is most likely related to the configuration changes that nVidia made from the 8xxx to 9xxx series drivers. Please review the README and update your configuration accordingly. You can also use nvidia-xconfig to assist you.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/README/index.html

If this does not resolve your issue, re-test with a newer version of the drivers.