Bug #224

NVidia Driver not installed when using PCI NVidia card

Added by mihanson over 15 years ago. Updated almost 13 years ago.

Status:Closed Start date:
Priority:Normal Due date:12/31/1969
Assignee:jams % Done:

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Category:- Spent time: -
Target version:6.00.04

Description

Just did a fresh FE only install with 6.00.07. Hardware specs:

  • CPU: AMD Geode NX 1750 CPU
  • Chipset: SIS 741GX & 964L
  • 3.5" 300GB Maxtor DiamondMax10 HDD
  • 5.25” 52X CD-ROM
  • Floppy drive
  • [[http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187042|Sparkle SFPC84GS512U2LP GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI HDCP Ready Video Card]]
  • Memory: 768M DDR 400
  • ECS 741GX-M2 Motherboard
  • 10/100 Fast Ethernet and sound onboard

The frontend will not start due to a missing NVidia module and/or type1 font module. See attached Xorg.0.log The 8400 card was physically installed at the time of installation. The mobo has built in video (SiS 661) that I'm not using and cannot disable in the BIOS. Maybe that's confusing the OS? I know I can try to force nvidia installation with pacman, but I'd like to troubleshoot why it was not detected in the first place.

lspci.log (1.1 kB) admin, 02/25/2009 04:12 pm

lspci-vv.log (11.3 kB) admin, 02/25/2009 04:12 pm

lspci-nm.log (602 Bytes) admin, 02/25/2009 04:12 pm

xorg.conf (2.4 kB) admin, 02/25/2009 04:12 pm

Xorg.0.log (5.3 kB) admin, 02/25/2009 04:12 pm

mythvantage_install.log (46 kB) admin, 02/25/2009 04:12 pm

History

Updated by jams over 15 years ago

note to myself about where the problem is.

mount: you must specify the filesystem type
cat: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.

cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

Updated by cecil over 15 years ago

Interesting as this works fine with Atomic Ant.

Updated by graysky over 15 years ago

Worked fine on my Athlon XP-based/nforce2 system as well (I have the same video board you do, jams)

Updated by cecil over 15 years ago

Can you please post the results of:
lsmod | grep agp
lsmod | grep sis

Updated by mihanson over 15 years ago

[mihanson@geode ~]$ lsmod | grep agp sis_agp 9088 1 agpgart 31572 2 nvidia,sis_agp [mihanson@geode ~]$ lsmod | grep sis sis900 22016 0 mii 6528 1 sis900 sis_agp 9088 1 agpgart 31572 2 nvidia,sis_agp pata_sis 12164 3 libata 158240 2 pata_sis,pata_acpi

Note that I have manually installed nvidia-beta and nvidia-utils-beta.

Mike

Updated by cecil over 15 years ago

Boot with the CD.
Press <tab>
You should see >vmlinuz initrd=larch.img blah blah blah
Press the spacebard and type:
disablemodules=agpart,sis_agp
Press enter

Does it now load the nvidia drivers? If this works, before reboot you'll need to add agpart and sis_agp to the list of blacklisted modules in /etc/rc.conf. Let me know.

Updated by iscraigh over 15 years ago

same card (256 MB) same problem when I update to trunk to try and get VDPAU.
7nif2 board disabled onboard nvidia 6.0.0.5 or 0.6 work but upgrade to trunk fails with same error

Craig

Updated by iscraigh over 15 years ago

Sorry to edit but mine is also a FE only install

Updated by cecil over 15 years ago

@Craig, lsmod | grep agp and post the results.

Updated by mihanson over 15 years ago

Cecil: I added disablemodules=agpart,sis_agp to the boot line when booting from the CD. I used the non-splashy grub entry so I could see what was going on. At the tail of the boot process, before it switched to X for the install menu, I saw that it had loaded nvidia. After install, but before reboot, I made the modules parameter in /etc/rc.conf look like this: MODULES=(!agpart !sis_agp) and then rebooted. No dice. Same problem. I looked at /etc/rc.conf again and my changes were not there (I think I was changing the live installer's os, not the installed os) so I added them again. No dice. Same problem. I made a small tweak to the MODULES line so it looked like this: MODULES=(!agpart !sis-agp) and rebooted. Still no luck. Same problem. I lsmod'ed sis and it only returned sis900 (ethernet driver). I lsmod'ed agp and it returned nothing. I ran updatedb and did a locate on nvidia and the only thing mildly interesting returned was nvidia-agp.ko I changed MODULES and eliminated the !agpart but no luck.

Updated by iscraigh over 15 years ago

Cecil

Started with a fresh .o.5 install then did
pacman -Syu
This failed so I did a
pacman -Sfu
answered yes a couple of times and we are off to the races
next
pacman -R nvidia nvidia-utils
Error about failing to remove them
pacman -S nvidia-beta nvidia-utils-beta
try this
pacman -Rd mythtv nvidia-utils nvidia mplayer
error about /lib/modules/2.6.28-LinHES/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko existing
ran
mv /lib/modules/2.6.28-LinHES/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/2.6.28-LinHES/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko.old

pacman -S mythtv-vdpau nvidia-beta nvidia-utils-beta mplayer-vdpau-nogui directfb

error about script (nvidia) failing to run properly
pacman -Sd xine-lib-vdpau-svn
pacman -S nvidia-beta
pacman -S nvidia-utils-beta

No errors this time

rebooted and it is working now with incredibly low cpu usage.

lsmod | grep agp nvidia_agp 8348 1 agpgart 31572 2 nvidia,nvidia_agp
Very strange it does seem that nvidia is not removing properly
once removed then the install can proceed.

Craig

Updated by jams almost 13 years ago

  • Target version changed from 7.2 to 6.00.04

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