Re: Nvidia problems

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Jeff Vian wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 04:05 -0400, Dan wrote:
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

"/sbin/lsmod" works for me as a regular user.
You need the path but do not need to be root to run it.
Oh, for me too. Did they change that in FC5? /sbin used to be root-read only.
-Dan


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