Re: installing nvidia driver for pci express 6600GT?

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:16:15PM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> Hm, unknown nvidia device:
> 
> 0000:04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown
> device 0140 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
>         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
>         Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>         Memory at d6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Expansion ROM at d5fe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>         Capabilities: [78] #10 [0001]

Is that the nv or nvidia driver saying that?

> What else is needed? Xorg still does not find the module nvidia...

Does the nvidia driver work with x.org?  I had absolutely no problems
with an fx5200 and the nvidia driver using xfree86.  Never tried x.org
(no idea yet why I should, although future development of course makes
x.org much better).

Len Sorensen