On Monday 17 February 2003 12:31, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Monday 17 Feb 2003 17:25, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have just finished building the xfs-sources kernel. It boots up
> > fine BUT I have no X using the nvidia drivers. (vesa works fine) I
> > have done emerge -C nvidia-kernel and for nvidia-glx and
> > reinstalled them both I've done update-modules (using 4191 series
> > drivers). I did compile agpgart into the kernel, but NvAGP is set
> > to "0" insmod nvidia says no module by that name found. I know I'm
> > missing something very basic but for the life of me, I'm lost.
> > Suggestions and DUMBASS comments are wellcome.
>
> cd /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs_pre6/video
no such directory hmmm Can I link from old, working kernel, or copy the 
/lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r10/video to the xfs kernel?
(nvidia.0 only appears in /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r10/video) 
note that nvidia drivers work fine with the exception of AGP with the 
gentoo-sources kernel

> ln -s . ../kernel/drivers/video
> (nVidia 4191 installs in the wrong place)
>
> /etc/modules.d/nvidia contains:
> # Nvidia drivers support
> alias char-major-195 nvidia
> # To tweak the driver the following options can be used, note that
> # you should be careful, as it could cause instability!!
> #
> #   To enable Side Band Adressing:  NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1
> #
> #   To enable Fast Writes: NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1
> #
> # To enable both for instance, uncomment following line:
> #
> #options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1 \
> #     NVreg_EnableVia4x=1
> options nvidia NVreg_EnableVia4x=1
>
> Then update-modules and try again.
>
> Peter

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