Re: Nvidia driver

Nicolas FRANCOIS staggered into the Black Sun and said:
an Nvidia 8600 GT graphic card (which is for the moment a 7300LE,
because the 8600 was not available at the time I purchased the PC),

Er... what shows up in "lspci | grep VGA"? (This is not that relevant to
the problem you describe, though.)

I installed the last SVN version of LFS

Whoa. You like to live on the edge.

But when I tried to install the last Nvidia kernel [module], I had
this problem while launching X :
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Function not
implemented)

So, you modprobed nvidia before starting X, right? And you get:

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 Mar 1 17:19 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 Mar 1 17:19 /dev/nvidiactl

from ls -l /dev/nvidia* ?

When I look at dmesg after loading the nvidia driver, I see this :
NVRM: request_irq() failed (-38)

Ah. In your BIOS Setup, make sure that "Assign IRQ to VGA" is set to Y,
and after you've modprobed nvidia, you need to see that the nvidia
module has grabbed one of the interrupts.

What can I do to solve my problem ? Is it a BIOS problem, a driver
problem...

I am not sure yet. You might want to to a dmesg right after modprobing
nvidia and follow up with anything that looks odd. Also, nvidia depends
on I2C, so you have to have the I2C module for your chipset loaded.
(You should have that loaded already, but it never hurts to check.) HTH
anyway, and bonne chance,

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