Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared"

From: David Bruce (dbruce_at_tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 11/12/04

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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:40:30 -0500

    > First of course be sure that /lib/modules/2.6.9/nvidia/nvidia.ko exists.
    > That's still the standard location for that driver, AFAIK.

    Yes, it's there.

    > Run lsmod | grep nvidia. Is the nvidia module already loaded? If not,
    > then modprobe nvidia. What's the result? Now can X start?

    lsmod shows no modules loaded.
    modprobe nvidia generates no errors, and a subsequent lsmod show nvidia to be
    loaded. However, X still won't start (with the nvidia driver, that is; the
    nv driver works OK).

    > The solution may be as simple
    > as mentioning nvidia in /etc/modules, to force it to be loaded
    > automatically at boot.

    I did that, but it didn't resolve the problem, not surprisingly as loading
    nvidia with modprobe didn't fix it temporarily.

    I am by no means an expert on the workings of XFree86, but my understanding it
    that the nvidia driver consists of both a kernel object file (nvidia.ko) as
    well as a user-space object file, and I think the latter is the problem
    here. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers contains a whole series of $DRIVER.o
    files for different drivers which appears to correspond with all of the
    driver alternatives offered when using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86.
    There isn't any file in there named nvidia.o or anything similar, and I
    wonder if that is the problem.

    Thanks for the suggestions
    David Bruce 

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