-----Original Message-----
From: SnapafunFrank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation +
uninstalling modules
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
Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment
to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213
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Also, don't forget to check the following in your
XF86Config-4:
(from the readme)
In the Module section, make sure you have:
Load "glx"
You should also remove the following lines:
Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"
...when I install the nvidia driver (as needed
everytime a kernel upgrade happens) I usually just
open a console and init 3. Then login as root,
install the driver and make the XF86Config-4
changes...
Any progress this far?
When I tried it, it failed while trying to compile the
nvidia kernel...
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