you could also run /sbin/lsmod and you should see NVdriver under the list, if 
so it's loaded

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 18:39, you wrote:
> Paul:
>
> Thanks for the tip!
>
>
> This was done with the stock kernel. My wife would kill me if I messed with
> her Linux! She never has any problems and it never has to be shutdown. I
> was lucky enough to get her to let me do this so she could play Unreal
> Tournament.
>
> I will give this a try and see if it works.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> On Tuesday 11 December 2001 09:28 pm, you wrote:
> > This happenned to me as well.  Did you by any chance update her kernel
> > (the kernel module is compiled for the stock kernel).
> >
> > What I did was download the source rpm and then (as root):
> >
> > rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel.src.rpm
> > rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_kernel...rpm
> >
> > then install the NVIDIA_GLX.rpm
> >
> > -Paul Rodr�guez
> >
> > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 22:09, Steven Spears wrote:
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install the new NVidia drivers on my wife's machine and
> > > I'm having a bit of a problem. When I install the rpm for 8.1 it says
> > > this:
> > >
> > > Preparing...                ###########################################
> > > [100%] 1:NVIDIA_kernel
> > > ########################################### [100%] modprobe: Can't
> > > locate module NVdriver
> > >
> > > NVdriver installed successfully
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm using this command: "rpm -ivh NVIDIA*
> > >
> > > Any help or points to the proper location for help would be greatly
> > > appreciated. I've already tried going through the archives to no avail.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
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