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Old 10-08-2006, 03:50 AM   #1
cowyn
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installing nvidia 6200,everything is OK but driver can't load(resolved)

I've got a PCI-E nvidia geforce 6200TC card.
paltform: please have a look at my signature about the "Workstation".
When I installed the driver,the process compiled a module for my kernel,I could "modprobe nvidia" succefully.After the driver was successfully installed,I made some changes to the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf,please see bellow.
When I startx,I got some err like following and could not get into the x window.

Xorg.0.log:
Code:
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/ws:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
......
......
......
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Input/output error).
(EE) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     interrupts generated by the NVIDIA graphics device. 
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section in the
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
dmesg:
Code:
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8774  Tue Aug  1 20:54:08 PDT 2006
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1577)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
xorg.conf
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)"
        BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection
I can't find any useful infomation.
Does anyone know what is the issue?
THX!
Last edited by cowyn; 10-08-2006 at 08:16 PM.
 
Old 10-08-2006, 05:01 AM   #2
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cherife
I've got a PCI-E nvidia geforce 6200TC card.
paltform: please have a look at my signature about the "Workstation".
When I installed the driver,the process compiled a module for my kernel,I could "modprobe nvidia" succefully.After the driver was successfully installed,I made some changes to the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf,please see bellow.
When I startx,I got some err like following and could not get into the x window.

Xorg.0.log:
Code:
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/ws:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
......
......
......
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Input/output error).
(EE) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     interrupts generated by the NVIDIA graphics device. 
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section in the
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
dmesg:
Code:
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8774  Tue Aug  1 20:54:08 PDT 2006
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1577)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
xorg.conf
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)"
        BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection
I can't find any useful infomation.
Does anyone know what is the issue?
THX!
I don't know if this helps, but this is the module section of my xorg.conf:

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

At a minimum you should comment out the dri module in your section. I let the nvidia installer modify the file and it commented out the other entries that you have in your xorg.conf and added the option.
Last edited by Steve50; 10-08-2006 at 05:04 AM.
 
Old 10-08-2006, 05:06 AM   #3
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Try the solutions pointed out in Chapter 5 of the driver README: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L...hapter-05.html . It seems to be essentially a problem with IRQ sharing.

I read about one person with the same problm you describe, who was able to fix this by moving one PCI card in his computer to another slot which did not share the IRQ with the graphics card slot.

Eric
 
Old 10-08-2006, 05:21 AM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve50
I don't know if this helps, but this is the module section of my xorg.conf:

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

At a minimum you should comment out the dri module in your section. I let the nvidia installer modify the file and it commented out the other entries that you have in your xorg.conf and added the option.
The driver 8774 & 9625 of nvidia can modify the xorg.conf,but even in that case,I still got the error info as listed above.
 
Old 10-08-2006, 05:27 AM   #5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien Bob
Try the solutions pointed out in Chapter 5 of the driver README: .../Linux-x86/1.0-8774/README/chapter-05.html. It seems to be essentially a problem with IRQ sharing.

I read about one person with the same problm you describe, who was able to fix this by moving one PCI card in his computer to another slot which did not share the IRQ with the graphics card slot.

Eric
Maybe change a PCI slot could work.But I only have one pci-e video card in the pci-e slot,no more cards on the motherboard.
I'm going to follow the link and have a try.
THX @ Steve50 & Alien Bob!
 
Old 10-08-2006, 06:53 AM   #6
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Ahhh,I'v got it!
I added the following kernel parameters:
Code:
noapic acpi=off pci=noacpi
But when I use only "pci=noacpi",it does't work.
THX @ Steve50 & Alien Bob!!
 
Old 10-23-2006, 01:57 PM   #7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cherife
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Input/output error).
(EE) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving
(EE) NVIDIA(0): interrupts generated by the NVIDIA graphics device.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section in the
(EE) NVIDIA(0): README for additional information.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
I have encountered the same problem. OpenSuse 10.1 with a 6600GT. I was using the binary driver supplied by Nvidia. I (unwittingly) updated x11-something-something using the Software Updater (rug I think). Afterwards, I cannot get GDM or Xorg running. I get a "The x server is now disabled. Restart GDM when it is configured. <okay>" message, and then get dropped to the console. xorg.conf has not changed.

How do I get back to my old nvidia configuration?

[edit] well, I screwed with something and it now works again (after a reboot). It was xorgcfg I think, or maybe nvidia-xconfig.
Last edited by 0ctane; 10-23-2006 at 02:59 PM.
 
Old 10-23-2006, 02:14 PM   #8
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 0ctane
I have encountered the same problem. OpenSuse 10.1 with a 6600GT. I was using the binary driver supplied by Nvidia. I (unwittingly) updated x11-something-something using the Software Updater (rug I think). Afterwards, I cannot get GDM or Xorg running. I get a "The x server is now disabled. Restart GDM when it is configured. <okay>" message, and then get dropped to the console. xorg.conf has not changed.

How do I get back to my old nvidia configuration?
Try, as root:

sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
 
  


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