Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

From: Matt Price (moptop99_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/13/05

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    Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:03:08 -0400
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    Hey folks,

    Bob Proulx wrote:

    >Matt Price wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Ms Linuz wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>Matt Price wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>Ms Linuz wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>>Look at your /etc/modules and make sure there is 'nvidia' ( without
    >>>>>quote ) line exists.
    >>>>>If not, add nvidia in your /etc/modules
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >
    >You should not need to have "nvidia" in /etc/modules. If you do then
    >something else is broken.
    >
    >
    >
    >>>You said you've used the 7174 version, afaik the recent version is 7667.
    >>>
    >>>
    >
    >Referring to the 7667 sounds like pulling bits directly from nVidia
    >because 7174 is still current in sid.
    >
    >
    >
    >>>If you don't mind you could use it and see the result.
    >>>Make sure changing X conf file following the doc, make sure you have
    >>>nvidia in your /etc/modules, and have this line on
    >>>/etc/udev/permissions.rules
    >>>
    >>>SUBSYSTEM=="nvidia", GROUP="video", MODE="0666"
    >>>
    >>>
    >
    >I have never needed that when using the packages for Debian.
    >
    >

    In any case, the line was already there -- either I added it myself
    long ago or it was added by some nvidia package along the way...

    >>(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
    >>(EE) NVIDIA(0) *** Aborting ***
    >>
    >>
    >
    >And of course it would be nice if it said why it did not load the
    >nvidia driver. That is the problem to deduce right now.
    >
    >What is the output of lspci?
    >
    > lspci | grep VGA
    >
    >
    >
    gives: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17
    [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3). this is NOT a new card! used to work fine
    with the 4496 nvidia-kernel package under 2.4.23.

    >>I can loadthe nvidia module manually using modconf, and no error
    >>messages are reported
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Try loading it with modprobe and seeing if there are any errors.
    >
    > modprobe nvidia
    >
    >
    >
    none yet.

    >If not then what is the output of this:
    >
    > cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
    >
    >
    >
    >Do you have a really, really, *really* new graphics card that would
    >not be supported by 7174?
    >
    >
    >
    definitely not...

    >Bob
    >
    >
    thnks everyone for the help. no ned to apologize ms linux!

    matt

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