J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote:
Hi again,
For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220
card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253,
and
it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and
when
I rebooted, the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and I
can
see the services start up as well but when it switches to vt7, it
just
has a little blinking cursor at the top.
Have you changed the kernel? The nvidia-drivers (as well as the ati-
drivers) have to be re-emerged after (nearly) any change to the kernel.
Just re-emerge it, unload and reload the corresponding kernel module
and try again to startx.
Helmut.
Just to make sure I understand you correctly. You mean:
cd /usr/src/linux
make all&& make modules_install
then cp the kernel to /boot ?
That I didn't try. I knew if I updated the kernel I had to re-emerge
the nvidia-drivers but I didn't know it was the other way around too.
Dale
:-) :-)
Dale,
Easy to test if the nvidia-driver is loaded correctly.
What does "dmesg" say when loading the nvidia module?
Also, is "nvidia" listed in the following file:
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 ?
I don't have it there, for some reason it's "autoloaded", but it might help?
--
Joost
I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few
times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the
xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me
wonder about the card. It was using the generic "nv" driver and it
still wouldn't work.
Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit.
Dale
:-) :-)
