On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 9:57 pm, Deek wrote:
> Gah, another problem:
> I just recently installed the nVidia driver for the GForce FX graphics card
> for linux, and installation and everything went fine, and it told me to
> change the XF86Config file to use the new driver. And so I did, and
> restarted the X server, and now what happens is the screen flickers a
> couple of times, and it give me an error message saying it couldn't start X
> Server because the nVidia kernal failed to initialize. So I go to it's
> documentation page, and it says this isn't the fault of linux's kernal, but
> it's the fault of the nVidia kernal, and could be due to the fact that it's
> module isn't loaded. So, using the terminal X Server-less, I browse to
> /sbin/ like it says and I do insmod nvidia, and then modprobe nvidia. It
> loads successfully, but when I start up X server ('xdm' in the command
> line) the screen just goes blank, and I have to restart to get out of it. I
> was also wanting to know if there is any text editors that work without X
> Server, so incase if theres nothing I can do about it I can just edit the
> XF86Config back to what it was. Thanks.try a depmod -a when you init the module
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