2008/3/31, Nicolas FRANCOIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi. > > I just bought a new PC, a DualCore 2.2GHz, with 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), and a PT890 motherboard. > > I installed the last SVN version of LFS, everything working fine. I then > installed the base of BLFS upto X, still fine. > > But when I tried to install the last Nvidia kernel, I had this problem > while launching X : > > NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Function not > implemented) > > I think I saw the driver work for a Mandriva, so this must be me missing > some obvious point, but Googling the error message didn't work out as > well as I would have thought. > > When I look at dmesg after loading the nvidia driver, I see this : > > NVRM: request_irq() failed (-38) > > What can I do to solve my problem ? Is it a BIOS problem, a driver > problem... > > Thanks for any help. > > \bye > > -- > > Nicolas FRANCOIS | /\ > http://nicolas.francois.free.fr | |__| > X--/\\ > We are the Micro$oft. _\_V > Resistance is futile. > You will be assimilated. darthvader penguin > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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