xserver and nvidia 6800

[eldad asoulin]

I installed from 3 different isos with the same result, sep-15 sep-29 and sep-30.
the install is going good untill it tries to start x, comes up with a message
that it can't start gdm and it will be disable until I fix it. typing startx it
comes up with an error about module v41 and most important can't find screens.
going into xf86config and it's using default screen and all seems o.k. no matter
what i try it just won't startx!
Asus A8V deluxe mobo
athlon 64 3500+
sata 120gig
nvidia 6800
1gig dual channel ram

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

What we'll need are copies of your /var/log/XFree86.0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

If you've modified XF86Config-4 at all, please describe your modifications, and
send the original unmodified file if you have it.

[eldad asoulin (eldad)]

Created an attachment (id=290)
XFree log

As requested

[eldad asoulin (eldad)]

Created an attachment (id=291)
XF86config-4

As requested

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Can you try commenting out the dri section in your config?
It looks like that for some reasons the server cannot load that specific module.

Fabio

[eldad asoulin (eldad)]

tried to comment out dri but to no availe, still complains about no screen
found. tried to apt-get install nvidia-glx but that does not work.
copied a working xfree86.conf (from Yoper) but still no good. run
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 but still no good :(

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Argh! I can see that the chipset is unknow:

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x0041) rev 161, Mem @
0xfb000000/24, 0xf0000000/27, 0xfa000000/24, BIOS @ 0xf9f00000/17

Please provide me output from lspci -n.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Ok tagging the bug as LATER. The card is not supported by the nv free driver
maintained by nvidia itself.

The only two options are to use either the VESA driver or the NVIDIA binary
driver that you can download
from nvidia.com.

Fabio

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

As agreed with Matt on irc.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

These have been reported to work with X.Org.