On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:36, you wrote: > When I use the startx command it bombs out, with the following message; > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" > (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw" > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > When I use; > > insmod nvidia or, > modprobe nvidia > > the module loads with a kernel taint warning and startx works with the > appropriate nvidia splash screen. > > Contents of modules.conf are; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ cat /etc/modules.conf |grep nvidia > alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia > > Why wont the nvidia module load automatically? > > Cheers Ross Drummond
Solved! Used the solution advised in; http://www.netadmintools.com/art185.html To determine what alias to add, look at your device number that was created by the NVIDIA driver install routine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ ls -l /dev/nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 Feb 20 2004 /dev/nvidia0 The device number is 195, so I added 'alias char-major-195 nvidia' to my /etc/modules.conf Cheers Ross Drummond
