* nebrich@u.washington.edu (nebrich@u.washington.edu) [011005 12:23]: > Hi, > > I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on > my Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh > on my Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with > 32 MB of SDRAM. I am running kernel 2.4.9. I installed the latest > nVidia drivers (1541) using the Debian installer packages. The video > card worked fine with the stock 'nv' driver that came with XFree86 4. FWIW, I have been successfully using the debian pacakged versions with my riva for a long time. I'd only resort to the non-deb versions if you absolutely can't get the debs to work -- the debs use the same download and build process but then wrap everything nicely in a .deb for easy upgrade/removal later. > With the nVidia driver, however, X tried to load, flashes some dark > blue colors on the screen, then quits with the error: (EE) NVIDIA(0): > Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! you did build and install the nvidia-kernel driver, yes? is it getting loaded? what does lsmod show? > I have included the output of my X server below. Any ideas what may be > causing this? I did read in the troubleshooting section of nVidia's > README.txt file for the Linux drivers that TNT cards may need the > memory type (SDRAM) specified in the source code for the kernel nVidia > driver. Might this be the problem? I didn't need any special settings in the sources, but I am working with a custom-compiled kernel without framebuffer support. vineet@gobo ~ % env COLUMNS=132 dpkg -l nvidia\* | grep ii | cut -b 0-50 ii nvidia-glx 1.0.1541-1 ii nvidia-glx-src 1.0.1541-1 ii nvidia-kernel-2.4.10 1.0.1541-1 ii nvidia-kernel-2.4.7usb 1.0.1251-2 ii nvidia-kernel-2.4.9 1.0.1541-1 ii nvidia-kernel-src 1.0.1541-1 good times, -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. echo Qba\'g gernq ba zr\! |tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'
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