Re: installing nvidia driver for pci express 6600GT?

[Alexander Fieroch <Fieroch@web.de>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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?

lspci did say it and I'm currently running X with the vesa driver. Is
this an answer to the question?

> 
> 
>>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).

I didn't get the geforce 6600GT to work with xfree86 so I have installed
xorg but the nvidia driver is not found too.

Regards,
Alex

> 
> Len Sorensen
> 
>