On Thursday 06 November 2003 22.27, Mark Knecht wrote:
>    OK, everything is emerged and I've modified the XF86config file as
> instructed. I'm getting an error message
>
> NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or
> directory)
>
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
>
>    Indeed, /dev/nvidiactl does not exist.
>
>    Are there any specific options I needed to enable in my kernel to
> make this work? agpgart? Other stuff? dri/drm? That's required by the
> Radeon family, but this is a new box and new kernel, so likely I didn't
> get somethign turned on if required.

You need to load the kernel module:
modprobe nvidia

and maybe add nvidia to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.[456]

/Michael


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