Martin wrote: >Cycling though the resolutions didn't help, all the options are unusable. I >installed the nvidia display drivers to try to solve the problem, but now X >won't start at all. "Can not load NVidia kernel module". > >The module is loaded (modinfo confirms this). In the nvidia driver readme FAQ >it turns out that this is this message also occurs if some of the files aren't >found. Turns out that these files are missing on my system. No idea why, I >even reinstalled the drivers. > >These files are missing: >/dev/fbs/nvidia0 >/dev/fbs/nvidia1 >/dev/fbs/nvidia2 >/dev/fbs/nvidia3 >/dev/fbs/nvidia4 >/dev/fbs/nvidia5 >/dev/fbs/nvidia6 >/dev/fbs/nvidia7 > You will only get one of these for each board installed. The driver will not get loaded with just an installation since the vgatext driver is already bound to the hardware. A reboot is required.
> >/usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/libglx.so >/usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/libglx.so.1 > libglx.so* does not get installed in /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers. They get installed in /usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions by the SUNWxorg-mesa package. > >/usr/include/NVIDIA/gl.h >/usr/include/NVIDIA/glext.h >/usr/include/NVIDIA/glx.h >/usr/include/NVIDIA/glxext.h > The NVIDIA driver does not install these files. >.... >How do I fix this? > > Please grab the 1.0-8762 driver from the NVIDIA driver download page and install it. Afterwards, send me the output of: pkgchk SUNWxorg-mesa NVDAgraphicsr NVDAgraphics (Ignore the messages about the master file).
