Sabayon kernel 3.6-r3 - nvidia error [Solved]

[B3rtm3n]

I installed latest kernel with kernel switcher

For some reason when doing

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eselect opengl list

after kernel switcher in order to check I noticed it was set to xorg-x11 instead of Nvidia so switched it to Nvidia.

I rebooted and since my system refuses to boot with nvidia driver

When starting Nvidia X server settings I get the following message:

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

I reinstalled Nvidia drivers and did another install of the kernel but nothing helped.

Also when doing

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nvidia-xconfig

I get the the message:

bash: nvidia-xconfig: command not found

Does anyone has had same issues? And how to solve them?

Thanks for any help

[joeoden]

Check to see if you have the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Had similar thing after clean install of a daily iso built BEFORE: 2012-11-04
Problem was a missing file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Didn't look into the problem (new image next day) as it was easier for me to install the 2012-11-04 image

[sabayonino]

xorg.conf is generated at boot via dbus

make sure that kernel-switcher installed nvidia-drivers for 3.6 kernel

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# equo query installed nvidia-drivers | grep 3.6.0

if not :

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# equo install nvidia-drivers#`uname -r`

[steffie]

also get this last times:
# Repositoriums-URL: http://pkg.sabayonlinux.org/standard/sa ... se/amd64/5
>> # Lokaler Repositoriums-Pfad: /var/lib/entropy/client/database/amd64/sabayon-limbo/standard/amd64/5
>> # Repositoriums-API: 3
>> (7/8) Web Dienst Kommunikationsfehler: get_packages_metadata TypeError('expected string or buffer',),

[B3rtm3n]

When doing:

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equo query installed nvidia-drivers | grep 3.6.0

I got the following message:

>> @@ Package: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.60#3.6.0-sabayon branch: 5, [__system__]
>> Installed: version: 304.60 ~ tag: 3.6.0-sabayon ~ revision: 1
>> Slot: 0,3.6.0-sabayon

I actually already reinstalled the drivers doing:

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equo install nvidia-drivers#3.6.0-sabayon

Also added me to the video group just to be sure (which was stated in the installation message):

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gpasswd -a peter video

and also:

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modprobe nvidia

does nothing

So just to be sure I did:

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equo install nvidia-drivers#`uname -r`

and rebooted and ... nothing happened, still same problem

when doing:

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eselect opengl set 2

I get the following message:

Switching to nvidia OpenGL interface... done

but when I do:

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nvidia-xconfig

I still get the message:

bash: nvidia-xconfig: command not found

So I started seaching and messing around and found at Gentoo the installation of Nvidia and noticed that when doing:

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nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

gave me a blank file !!!

So I stumbled across this link: http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=NVidia_Config

and copied this into xorg.conf and changed somewhat the resolution and restarted x and all was back to normal however I was unable to do nvidia-xconfig which still gave me the same error message.

This time however I was able to start nvidia x server settings and did

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nvidia-settings

which enable me to save correct settings to the xorg file (allthough when starting it gave an error message: Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file "infinality/conf.d")

but still unable to do nvidia-xconfig

[sabayonino]

wiki link is too old.

Try my xorg.conf configuration (I had nvidia card...)

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Section "Module"
    SubSection  "extmod"
       Option    "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
    Load    "i2c"
    Load    "ddc"
    Load    "vbe"
    Load    "dri"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
     Option    "AllowMouseOpenFail"    "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
    VertRefresh    43 - 60
    HorizSync      28 - 80
EndSection


Section "Device"

    Identifier  "SabayonVga0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    #BusID    "PCI:01:00"
    #Option "RenderAccel" "on"
    #Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
    #Option "BusType" "PCI"
    #Option "ColorTiling" "on"
    #Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
    # UseEvents is causing segmentation faults with
    # NVIDIA 6xxx, 7xxx and >=275.xx.xx drivers
####    #Option "UseEvents" "True"
    Option "LogoPath" "/usr/share/backgrounds/sabayonlinux-nvidia.png"

EndSection
   


Section "Screen"

    Identifier    "Screen 0"
    Device        "SabayonVga0"
    Monitor       "Generic Monitor"
    Option       "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

    DefaultDepth 24

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth      8
        ViewPort   0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           16
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           24
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

EndSection


Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier   "Main Layout"
    Screen 0    "Screen 0"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
   #Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


don't set nothing now. try this.

[B3rtm3n]

Thanks for your help!

I have been doing some reading

Seems xorg.conf is generated by

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nvidia-xconfig

Since it is not working xorg.conf was blank of course.

I used your file and did in terminal as root:

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nvidia-settings

and saved the settings to xorg.conf.

This is my current output:

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Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 260"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Still not able to run nvidia-xconfig so do not know where the problem lies.

[B3rtm3n]

Ok, I'll give it a try.

Should be interesting maybe for new users to put the commands too.

Concerning root, all my commands are being done as root. Problem is when putting # before the commands you can not do a simple copy & paste when needed

I actually did install this latest kernel on a second pc with nvidia and had the same error, when upgrading to latest kernel the system does not switch to nvidia but to xorg-X11.

I think it is a bug.

[B3rtm3n]

ok, thanks a lot, sudo is working.

As being root I did the following:

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equo remove xf86-video-nouveau

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equo install nvidia-drivers#`uname -r`

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eselect opengl set nvidia

added me (peter) to the user group

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gpasswd -a peter video

restarted x

and did NOT as root

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sudo nvidia-xconfig

restarted x

all back to normal

btw xorg.conf file reads as follows:

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Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 260"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection