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- From: "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>
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- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg + nvidia
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:24:38 -0600
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For the record, I had this problem as well. Arwed's fix works like a charm.
Bearcat
On Friday 30 April 2004 11:21 in an email titled "Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg +
nvidia" Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:08:08PM +0000, Mathieu L wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I noticed something weird related to Xorg and/or Nvidia drivers but I
>> don't know if it's a bug and if yes, from each one is the bug coming
>> from, so I'm asking for your advices.
>> To be sure that everything was correctly done after I got this problem
>> I dispelled both of them before retrying to test them. I firstly
>> casted Xorg with -c -r, and then I did the same for nividia drivers.
>> I launched immediatly X with a simple startx, everything went fine, I
>> tested glxgears which gave me something like 1000fps.
>> Then I rebooted and when I tried to startx X again I got the classical
>> no screen found error (I know, I should have looked in the log to the
>> the actual error) and I think it was because it didn't find some Gl
>> modules. Note that I could still launch X if I switched back to nv
>> instead of nvidia.
>> Finally I just recasted again nvidia drivers and I could startx again
>> with nividia without any problem (until next reboot I guess).
>>
>> Any clue?
>
>Are you using udev for /dev management? If so you _have_ to load the
>nvidia module before starting X, just put it in /etc/modules.
>With udev there's no support for autoloading modules when their
>(non-existing) device nodes get accessed.
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[SM-Discuss] Xorg + nvidia,
Mathieu L, 04/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg + nvidia,
Arwed von Merkatz, 04/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg + nvidia, Bearcat M. Sandor, 04/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg + nvidia, Eric Sandall, 04/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg + nvidia,
Wolfgang Scheicher, 04/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg + nvidia, Jeremy Kolb, 04/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg + nvidia,
Arwed von Merkatz, 04/30/2004
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