Bug 21002

Summary:	Portage Nvidia driver 1.0.4349-r2 doesn't work, NVIDIA 1.0-4363 works fine
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Marc Herren <maildrop>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	critical	CC:	azarah, n2uro, x86-kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marc Herren 2003-05-14 05:44:15 UTC

Using the portage ebuild 1.0.4349-r2 results in a black screen, nothing works (
system dead ) 1.0.3123-r2 still works.

If then manually installed the latest driver from NVidia 1.0-4363 and everything
works fine.

Please up-date to the newer version, I'm not the only one having this problem (
can't reproduce it on two Dell Inspirion 8200 with a GeForce 440 Go, one using
the gentoo-gaming-r3 kernel and the other the latest vanilla )

I also tried 1.0.4363-r1 from the unstable tree without success ( also dead
system, black screen ) 



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Emerge nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx
2. Load module nvidia
3.startx

Actual Results:  
Black screen, system dead ( no network, ssh )


Using  gaming-sources 2.4.20-r3

Comment 1 Samuel Greenfeld 2003-06-04 22:42:42 UTC

Your caption is a bit confusing, but I can second this view.

1.0.3123-r2 works, all the 1.0.4*** varients I've tried so far do not.  I have tried lowering screen refresh rates (read elsewhere sometime ago - possibly DPMI rate quering and rate limiting doesn't work) and similar to no avail.

Perhaps there is some silly workaround we have missed?

Kernels tried: vanilla-sources, ac-sources, and  (various 2.4.20, NVidia driver versions over several months)

Last tried: ac-sources 2.4.21-rc6-ac2 , nvidia-kernel/glx 1.0.4363-r2 (today).

Graphics card is a PNY-branded GeForce3 Ti 200.

Comment 2 Samuel Greenfeld 2003-06-04 23:34:49 UTC

Whoops; wrong bug but similar.

Your issues were solved. Mine (after at least 15 reboots, unmerges, remerges, searching online for a few hours, and who knows what else today) still exist, even with NVidia's installer.

Perhaps my fix will come next time.  

(And I meant EDID querying, DPMI is protected memory under DOS)

Comment 3 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-19 04:31:41 UTC

Fixed yet?

Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-31 22:39:05 UTC

Please reopen if this is still a problem.