On Tuesday 19 April 2005 4:30am, A E Lawrence wrote: > Jacob Larsen wrote: > > Alexander Fieroch wrote: > >>So whats the problem with the proprietary nvidia driver? The module can > >>be loaded with modprobe and lsmod shows me that it is loaded, but xorg > >>says "(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)"! > > There are two components: a kernel module which sounds as if it is > loaded, and a driver module which is loaded by X which it sounds as if > you are not finding. Almost certainly a ModulePath (?) problem.
Umm, no. Its the kernel module that it isn't finding. That's the only module named "nvidia". The other module from NVIDIA is their own Opengl module, buts its just called "glx", although it identifies its author as NVIDIA and not Xorg/XFree86 when its loaded. From the earlier log, it seems the grand parent doesn't have that setup either, as Xorg is loading its own "glx" not NVIDIA's version. To the grand parent: can you load the nvidia module with modprobe from the command line before trying to run X? Does lspci (from pciutils deb) show your video card in its list? Do you have PCIe enabled in the kernel? (Just guessing on the last question, I don't have a PCIe mobo myself). If you're also compiling your own kernel, try using the nvidia packages provided by Debian along with kernel-package. Install nividia-kernel-source then use make-kpkg to compile the kernel and nvidia driver for your system, then once thats installed, install nvidia-glx. Warning: There may be a difference between Xorg and XFree86 on this matter. NVIDIA's own package has problems with Xorg, I know from experience (which is partly why I'm back to using XFree - being lazy, I'll just wait for Debian to upgrade to Xorg). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
