Re: nvidia driver failed to install
On Friday 06 May 2005 6:22am, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> (II) LoadModule: "v4l2"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module v4l2
> (II) UnloadModule: "v4l2"
> (EE) Failed to load module "v4l2" (module does not exist, 0)
I'm guessing this is for video for linux (v4l), right? Don't know anything
about v4l, but your xfree config appears to have several problems besides
nvidia.
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
> (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
This is the wrong glx module. The right one is the one from nvidia (the
vendor line will say "NVIDIA Corporation". It doesn't look like you've
loaded nvidia-glx and modified the xfree config correctly...
> (II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
> (II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o":
> No symbols found
> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o":
> No symbols found
> Skipping
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o": No
> symbols found
> Skipping
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o": No
> symbols found
> (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
> ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
The instructions for installing the nvidia module told you to remove the
"glcore" line in xfree's config file. IIRC, nvidia (or at least OpenGL) will
not work with this module loaded.
> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
This is from my xfree.log:
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
The module its looking for IS NOT the kernel module, its looking for the XFree
driver interface TO the kernel module.
There are 3 different modules involved with nvidia:
1) The nvidia kernel module, that has to be loaded before X can even start.
If your system is setup correctly that may not be necessary as your kernel
can auto-load modules itself if it knows enough about them. In most cases
though, people simply put 'nvidia' in their /etc/modules and have it loaded
on boot-up.
2) The nvidia_drv module, which is part of the nvidia-glx package, which
provides the Xfree interface to nvidia's kernel module. The kernel module
speaks to the video card, this driver module is for Xfree to talk to the
kernel module. This is the module being referred to as 'nvidia' in your
xfree config file, NOT the kernel module, which has to already be loaded, or
else THIS module will fail to initialize.
3) The nvidia glx module for accelerated OpenGL video. Nvidia's module is
also simply called "glx", the same as the xfree86 module, but the "vender"
line will be different, that's why I know you're loading the wrong one now.
This is also in the nvidia-glx package. The nvidia-glx debian package is NOT
optional! :) You have to have it was well as the kernel module, because it
has the nvidia_drv module. Its true that you can leave glx out of your xfree
config if you don't want OpenGL, but you need Debian's nvidia-glx package
installed anyway for the nvidia_drv module. (Nvidia's own installer installs
all of this when you use it, not just the kernel module. Debian has split
them up, for some reason I don't understand.)
My suggestion:
1) Remove the glcore module reference from xfree's config (and maybe the v4l
module too if you don't know why that's there either). FWIW, my module
section in my config only has this:
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "speedo"
However, since you're doing the dual monitor magic trick (yes, I'm jealous),
you may have to have other modules that I don't need, but I know some of the
modules you are loading are optional on conventional setups. Note that when
you load the nvidia-glx package it will fix things so that the right glx
module, nvidia's, will be loaded by the above reference.
This is the Debian packages I have loaded:
nvidia-glx 1.0.7174-3
nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.7174-3
nvidia-kernel-common 1.0.7174-1
nvidia-kernel-2.6.12-rc3 1.0.7174-3+10.00.Custom
The first 2 need to be explicitly selected by you, the 3rd is pulled in by
dependencies, and the last one, the kernel module, is created by
module-assistant or make-kpkg, from the earlier nvidia-kernel-source. These
4 are all you need to get nvidia working.
Clear as mud now? :)
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