Andrew wrote:
Jörn Rink wrote:
Am Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:07:44 -0600
hat andrew <fedora@xxxxxxxxxx> (andrew) folgendes geschrieben:
My xorg.conf is using nvidia for the device driver and I have Load
"glx" and Load "dri" in my modules section (among other things).
Here is the odd part and maybe this is the root of the problem but I
had to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so to
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so to just get X to start
up. But still no glx support.
Hi,
first of all, have you compiled the NVidia driver? and which driver?
Here i compiled the 8178 driver. I have to compile it, that means,
download the driver, change the file to 777 and execute it.
The driver itself compiles and installs, and as i remember correctly,
it changes the xorg.conf.
After compiling it, there must be a nvidia.ko module
under /lib/modules/yourkernel/extra/nvidia
and an entry in /etc/modprobe.conf.
The module has to be loaded, you can check this with lsmod | grep -i
nvidia.
Your xorg.conf file must have these entries:
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "glx"
EndSection
AND NO DRI ENTRY !!!
and this entry:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT]"
EndSection
The driver has to be nvidia, not nv
Remember, the nvidia driver only compiles in runlevel 3, no X should
run.
Good Luck
Jörn Rink
Thx! I forgot about the modprobe.conf however lsmod does not work.
What package does that come in?
Thanks
Andrew
module-init-tools . It's in /sbin, so you need to be root (not sudo either).
-Dan
