General Support - screen blank (nvidia problem) after dist-upgrade martinis - 11.08.2006, 10:38 Uhr Titel: screen blank (nvidia problem) after dist-upgrade
Hi! Yesterday i did an dist-upgrade. This was followed by the 'update-scripts-kanotix.sh' and 'install-nvidia-debian.sh'. Unfortunately
the monitor just goes mostly white and the machine hangs, needing a reboot.
I can get X to load properly only if i change the 'nvidia' occurrence in 'xorg.conf' to 'vesa', but don't really want this as screen looks very poor.
I have also updated to the latest kernel and used h2's script.
I have repeated the nvidia install several times. The message says that it is patching /usr/src/nv/conftest.sh and then notes that "Your driver installation has been altered" and says it will attmept to uninstall first. All seems to go well until X is fired up. The /var/log/nvidia-intaller.log file seems to confirm that all was well and no errors are reported.
So any advice on how to get the nvidia driver working again please. How can I test that everything is ok without loading up X?
devil - 11.08.2006, 11:23 Uhr Titel: screen blank (nvidia problem) after dist-upgrade
are you sure, your dist-upgrade went through all the way?
try one now and see if it runs normal
check if you have gcc 4.1 installed with: apt-cache policy gcc
It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
Err http://kanotix.com sid/main Packages
Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
Hit http://kanotix.com sid/contrib Sources
Hit http://kanotix.com sid/non-free Sources
Fetched 4B in 2s (2B/s)
Failed to fetch http://kanotix.com/files/debian/dists/s ... ckages.bz2 Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I have just ignored these, assuming they were not important. Was that ok?
martinis - 11.08.2006, 13:13 Uhr Titel:
For info, as this seems to be the root of my problem, here is the end of the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "Coolbits" "1"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce3 Ti 200 at PCI:1:0:0
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 03.20.00.18.00
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 4X
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are not supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce3 Ti 200 at PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0): Philips 150P (DFP-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Philips 150P (DFP-0): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): Philips 150P (DFP-0): External Single Link TMDS
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1024x768"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "800x600"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "640x480"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768
(++) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (100, 100); computed from -dpi X commandline option
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] 0 0 0xeb800000 - 0xeb87ffff (0x80000) MX[B]
[1] 0 0 0xec000000 - 0xefffffff (0x4000000) MX[B]
[2] 0 0 0xea000000 - 0xeaffffff (0x1000000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[4] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[5] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xe9800000 - 0xe9801fff (0x2000) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[10] -1 0 0xeb7f0000 - 0xeb7fffff (0x10000) MX[B](B)
[11] -1 0 0xeb800000 - 0xeb87ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[12] -1 0 0xec000000 - 0xefffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B)
[13] -1 0 0xea000000 - 0xeaffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[14] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B](OprD)
[15] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD)
[16] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD)
[17] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a81f (0x20) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b01f (0x20) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b41f (0x20) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b80f (0x10) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d007 (0x8) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B]
[25] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d80f (0x10) IX[B]
[26] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B](OprU)
[27] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B](OprU)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768"
(EE) NVIDIA(0): The requested configuration of display devices is not
(EE) NVIDIA(0): supported in the hardware.
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.
FatalError re-entered, aborting
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
1024x768 is the normal configuration for this screen and used to work fine.
Kano - 11.08.2006, 13:20 Uhr Titel:
update-scripts-kanotix.sh
install-nvidia-debian.sh
martinis - 11.08.2006, 14:28 Uhr Titel:
Thanks Kano. Yes I am aware of this and have done it several times, and another dist-upgrade. The nvidia installer log ends:
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 13:06:38
PDT 2006
-> Installing both new and classic TLS OpenGL libraries.
-> Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86' (1.0-8762):
executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'...
-> done.
-> Driver file installation is complete.
-> Running post-install sanity check:
-> done.
-> Post-install sanity check passed.
-> Shared memory test passed.
-> Running runtime sanity check:
-> done.
-> Runtime sanity check passed.
-> Would you like to run the nvidia-xconfig utility to automatically update you
r X configuration file so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used when you res
tart X? Any pre-existing X configuration file will be backed up. (Answer: N
o)
-> Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86
(version: 1.0-8762) is now complete. Please update your XF86Config or
xorg.conf file as appropriate; see the file
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt for details.
so it seems to have been completed ok. I am at a loss as to what to do next.
walid - 20.08.2006, 09:19 Uhr Titel:
export CC=gcc-4.1
install-nvidia-debian.sh