Failed to Initialize the NVIDIA graphics device - Samsung TV LN46A650

moodyjunk at frontiernet.net moodyjunk at frontiernet.net
Mon Feb 14 11:20:48 PST 2011


I'm running Fedora 12 kernel 2.6.32.26-175 and can't get Xorg to initialize my Samsung TV LN46A650.  No nVidia splash screen, just a black screen with fast blinking cursor.  The system does boot and Xwindows is running - I can VNC in to a full GUI desktop. Here are my system details:

$ lspci -nn | grep 'VGA\|NV'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT [10de:0640] (rev a1)

$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  195.36.31  Tue Jun  1 22:08:27 PDT 2010
GCC version:  gcc version 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10) (GCC)

$ lsmod | grep nouveau
$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia               9972549  0 
i2c_core               21774  26 dvb_usb_dib0700,dib7000p,dib7000m,dib0070,dvb_usb,dib3000mc,dib8000,dibx000_common,lgdt330x,cx88_vp3054_i2c,tuner_simple,wm8775,tda9887,tda8290,tea5767,tuner,cx25840,cx8800,ivtv,cx88xx,v4l2_common,videodev,nvidia,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_i801

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 260.19.06  (mockbuild@)  Sun Oct 10 17:39:46 EDT 2010

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Option         "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/edid.modified.bin"
    Option         "UseEvents" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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

I tried both nvidia-xconfig and livna-config-display as the xorg.conf file shows.

My Fedora 10 system works fine to the same TV and I do recall having to do something special to get the video working but I don't recall what.  Can anyone help?





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