nVidia in Xorg=black screen
 

The drivers install fine. I put "nvidia" in place of "vesa" in the xorg.conf and start x I get a black screen.

Any ideas?

FX

Did you try using "nv" instead of "nvidia". I believe "nv" is the stock nvidia driver and works better than "vesa". Otherwise you might check you screen section. Heres a snippet of mine.


# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"
Identifier "VESA Framebuffer"
Driver "nv"
#VideoRam 4096
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
vendorname "NVidia"
boardname "GeForce3 (rev 1)"
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "VESA Framebuffer"
Monitor "My Monitor"

# If your card can handle it, a higher default color depth (like 24 or 32)
# is highly recommended.

# DefaultDepth 8
# DefaultDepth 16
DefaultDepth 24
# DefaultDepth 32

What kernel are you running ? There are some NVIDIA driver issues with the 2.6.7 kernel.

The "vesa" drivers work fine. I thought that the "nv" drivers where just generic drivers and to actually get the 3D and frame rate capabilities of your card you had to install the nvidia drivers and then put in "nvidia" in place of either "vesa" or "nv".

Yea Im using the 2.6.7 kernel. Never seen anything about the nvidia issues and this kernel. Sorry.

FX

The 2.6.7 kernel uses 4k stacks by default which break the nvidia drivers. In order to get the nvidia drivers to work with the new 2.6.7 kernel you have to uncheck use 4k stacks under the kernel hacking menu when compiling the kernel. I'm running slack 10 with the 2.6.7 kernel and nvidia drivers no problem. Try recompiling the kernel with the use 4k stacks under kernel hacking menu unchecked so the kernel wil use 8k stacks instead. That should fix your problem.

Let me know if that helps.

This is exactly my problem too. I can get the NVIDIA drivers installed and running easily enough, but I get a total machine lockup when exiting KDE. I've got a custom 2.6.7 kernel,

Thanks for the pointer EdwardA, I'll try recompiling the kernel and post back with the results in a couple of days.

No problem. Just hope that helps. Like i said it should b/c that was my problem now my system runs fine no lock ups or anything.

thanks a lot!! that worked (at least for me)
I just disabled the 4k stacks thing, compiled, and all my problems were solved.
I had created this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=198384
Nobody answered... :(
but you guys solved both! cheers to EdwardA

Unchecking 4 Stack and a recompile fixed it for me also. Thanks all those that replied.

FX

Yes it worked for me also. Thanks a lot EdwardA

4k Stacks now allowed
 

Get this Nvidia Update

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-6106.html

It allows for 4k stacks.

Thanks for the great help guys...
Greg

Anyone know if I can install over the older (5336?) driver? or do I need to uninstall it first?

if you have a older driver installed try: nvidia-installer --update as root (of course, quit X first :)
That utility will connect to nvidia and install the latest drivers (that tool comes with the drivers so if you have old ones, you should have it)

rundarm: Thanks, that driver seems to load fine.

edit: I get the nvidia splash screen, but I have one problem. Its not letting me use "load glx" in XF86Config. Any Ideas why not?

edit2: I got it... I had to remove both the old nvidia-kernel and old the old nvidia-glx, then remove (nvidia-installer --unistall) the new one as well. After reinstalling the 6106, glx works fine now.