Re: nvidia-driver with 2.6.18-4-486 kernel

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kruton wrote:
This is the usual age old problem of getting nvidia
driver to work. My box (unstable) was running smoothly
until I upgraded to KDE 3.5.6 using 'aptitude -t
experimental'. In which process, I guess, the kernel
also got upgraded from 2.6.18-3-486 to 2.6.18-4-486 a
few days ago. At that time there was no
nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-486 in the unstable repository.
So, I tried the 'module-assistant' way:

$ apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx
$ m-a prepare
$ m-a autoinstall nvidia
$ apt-get install nvidia-glx
$ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (and choose nvidia)
$ echo nvidia >> /etc/modules
[--- reboot --]

It did not work. So, I shifted back to "nv" driver and
waited for a while. Yesterday I checked that
nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-486 was added to the unstable
repository. So, I tried it again:

$ apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx
$ apt-get install nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r)
$ apt-get install nvidia-glx
$ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (and choose nvidia)
[--- reboot --]

Same error: (on startx)
[EE] Failed to load module "nvidia" (module doesnot
exist, 0)
[EE] No deviecs found

Fatal server error
no screens found

$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia 4545108 0
agpgart 29360 1 nvidia
i2c_core 19472 3
nvidia,eeprom,i2c_nforce2

What is missing???
Thanks
kruton



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Why not download nvidia drivers from nvidia's website and run the
install script? As long as you get the headers for the kernel it should
create the module you need. Make sure X isn't running when you do it
though.

Joe
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