Re: NVIDIA driver

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:

> > Also make sure you comment out the Load "dri" and Load "GLCore" lines.
> 
> There wasn't one in my XF86Config.
> 
> > For starters, you can check that the driver is there. If the nvidia-glx
> > package (the one you built) is installed, you can use dpkg -L nvidia-glx
> > to see a list of its files. One of them should be
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o .
> 
> this is what 'dpkg -L nvidia-glx' says:

Is the driver actually loaded?

timshel# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    
vmnet                  17408   6 
vmmon                  18032   0 
ip_masq_vdolive         1488   0  (unused)
ip_masq_raudio          3088   0  (unused)
ip_masq_user            2620   0  (unused)
ip_masq_irc             2096   0  (unused)
ip_masq_quake           1492   0  (unused)
ip_masq_ftp             3616   0  (unused)
NVdriver              814112  10 

I found that even after installing the deb files I had to manualy add
NVdriver to /etc/modules.

I don't know if I should have just turned on the "auto" option shown below
or what, and I'm confused about kmod and kerneld and which if any I should
be running...

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
# An entry named `auto' will cause the system to start kerneld
immediately.
# Kerneld then loads modules on demand. `noauto' disables kerneld
completely.

#auto
NVdriver


...RickM...