Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:45, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> I loaded the latest drivers from the NVIDIA web site and tried them and they
> kept the xserver from starting. Fortunately I kept the old version (1251)
> and they worked fine so I reverted. Debian Unstable has packaged up versions
> of (I think 1512) and I am almost certain I had used them successfully at one
> stage.
Well, as so often it may be just a single option or missing dep; maybe I
just had luck, cos all versions from the 1.0 driver series from
nvidia.com worked just fine on my machines (woody w/ GeForce DDR and sid
w/ GeForce 2 Go).
On The other hand (but why works the debian packaged one?) it may be due
to some kernel settings (if self-baked); do not know their names. I
heard of some people that got their nvidia modules only to work when
they DISABLED framebuffer support in their kernel.
And: maybe you have not set the DGA and extmod options set in
XF86Config.4
just my two cents,
Timo
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