Re: NVIDIA card & lenny-SOLVED

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Wed November 14 2007, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > That looks like everything is OK and we are done. Does X start now with
> > the nvidia driver?
>
> no, black screen and I have to alt-F1 for text login.
ok, one last time I decided to totally remove the xorg.conf file, and rerun 
the NVIDIA...run
now I have a much more vanilla xorg.conf, and NVIDIA loaded.
here is your error output:
~$ egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) 
in "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType".
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): 
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     will be used as the requested mode.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): 
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and mty current xorg.conf:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Wed Sep 12 14:29:35 
PDT 2007

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

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

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

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
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note it now doesn't recognize my Dell monitor or the model of the NVIDIA 
card..
but it does load the NVIDIA driver.. go figure.
-- 
Paul Cartwright
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