Well today I bought a nvidia 6800 and ripped out my ATI 9700 POS crap driver card out
Ok so this is the first time I have ever installed nvidia and these are the steps i took.
First: I unmerged all ati stuff / than created a vesa xorg.conf just to get me back into X .
I emerged nvidia-glx and nividia-kernel those builds went fine.
Than went through my xorg.conf and added the following
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "My Video Card"
Driver "nvidia"
VideoRam 131072
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
also uncomented the glx opt.
That being said I cant get into X. My errors from my log
Just my EE or WW
Code:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to determine chip name
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display allowed;
(WW) NVIDIA(0): using first display
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device TV-0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "640x480" (not a valid TV mode)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "320x240" (not a valid TV mode)
(EE) NVIDIA(0): No modes remaining for display device TV-0
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
I am not sure what this is telling me. Is it trying to use my s-video for my display instead of my DVI jack ? So than I add this to my xorg.conf ..
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia Inc. GeForce 6800"
Driver "nvidia"
VideoRam 131072
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
Option "DPMS"
The connectedMonitor ops totally locks up my sytem with no errors in my xorg log.
The log ends with these few lines.
Code:
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.5336
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
Im lost first try at these drivers...... Almost thinking I should have just delt with the crappy performence of the linux ati drivers :'(
