Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules

[SnapafunFrank]

RAT wrote:
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote:
 

On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote:
   

I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from
NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one
conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but
OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I
have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel.
     

Did you remember to edit the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 to change the 
driver in X from nv to nvidia?
   

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection
 

From within X, open up a konsole window and type in lsmod and then try to see 
if you have the nvidia module loaded.  If you do not, then you have not 
properly installed the nvidia driver.
   

but .. the nvidia module doesn't seem to be loaded. lsmod shows nothing
and OpenGL still doesn't work :(
R
 

If I get the posting remembered I believe you were talking about 
swapping from -15mdk and -7mdk and back again?
Do you have both kernel-sources/vmlinuz in place and your boot loader 
configured to boot into either?
The way I understood things, when loading nVidia drivers, you need to be 
within the uname of the kernel you wanted to install the driver to, so 
that suggests to me that you need to boot into the -15mdk and install 
nVidia again as per its 'Requirements'. Yeah. I mean having the driver 
installed twice? It's my understanding, also, that once you have booted 
into a particular kernel type/version, that upon exiting "X", you are 
still using the initial booted too kernel?

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can correct this if'n I'm wrong.
--
Regards
SnapafunFrank
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