Mailing List Archive: nvidia 6111, xorg 6.8 and 2.6.8 kernel

nvidia 6111, xorg 6.8 and 2.6.8 kernel

Oct 6, 2004, 7:12 PM

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Has anyone else experienced problems running the nvidia 6111 drivers
with xorg 6.8 and the 2.6.8 kernel? When mys system starts, I get the
nvidia splash screen, but then the bottom 3/4 of my screen turns
bright white. The system eventually stops the process and goes back to
the vt, but the screen is very dark. If I reboot in single user mode,
the brightness is fine. the nv driver is working fine. The X log
tells me that the nvidia is initialized, but no usable screens are
found. I haven't changed the settings from my old nvidia driver, so I
have no idea whats wrong. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Doug Downham

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Re: nvidia 6111, xorg 6.8 and 2.6.8 kernel [ In reply to ]

lists at ptfd

Oct 6, 2004, 7:41 PM

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I am having problems something like this, but not exact. I finally had to
re-emerge synaptics and now my old xorg.conf worksagain.. check to make sure
all your special drivers have been recompiled with your new kernel.

Mike

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 10:12 pm, Doug Downham wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced problems running the nvidia 6111 drivers
> with xorg 6.8 and the 2.6.8 kernel? When mys system starts, I get the
> nvidia splash screen, but then the bottom 3/4 of my screen turns
> bright white. The system eventually stops the process and goes back to
> the vt, but the screen is very dark. If I reboot in single user mode,
> the brightness is fine. the nv driver is working fine. The X log
> tells me that the nvidia is initialized, but no usable screens are
> found. I haven't changed the settings from my old nvidia driver, so I
> have no idea whats wrong. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>
> Doug Downham
>
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Re: nvidia 6111, xorg 6.8 and 2.6.8 kernel [ In reply to ]

kryos.icedragon at gmail

Oct 6, 2004, 7:50 PM

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On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:41:03 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman <lists@ptfd.org> wrote:
> check to make sure
> all your special drivers have been recompiled with your new kernel.
>
> Mike
My old nvidia drivers worked with this kernel and xorg version. I had
xorg 6.8 and the 2.6.8 kernel running _before_ i emerged the new
nvidia driver. I'm sorry if I was unclear.

Doug

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Re: nvidia 6111, xorg 6.8 and 2.6.8 kernel [ In reply to ]

kryos.icedragon at gmail

Oct 7, 2004, 3:56 PM

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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:06:18 +0000, Alastair Murray
<alastairmurray@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> You could try nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2 (still ~arch). See bug 65455:
>
This is the version I'm currently using.

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Re: nvidia 6111, xorg 6.8 and 2.6.8 kernel [ In reply to ]

alastairmurray at blueyonder

Oct 7, 2004, 4:06 PM

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Doug Downham wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced problems running the nvidia 6111 drivers
> with xorg 6.8 and the 2.6.8 kernel? When mys system starts, I get the
> nvidia splash screen, but then the bottom 3/4 of my screen turns
> bright white. The system eventually stops the process and goes back to
> the vt, but the screen is very dark. If I reboot in single user mode,
> the brightness is fine. the nv driver is working fine. The X log
> tells me that the nvidia is initialized, but no usable screens are
> found. I haven't changed the settings from my old nvidia driver, so I
> have no idea whats wrong. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>
> Doug Downham
>
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>
>
>

You could try nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2 (still ~arch). See bug 65455:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65455

Hope this helps.

Alastair.

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