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Re: NVidia driver and kernel



Sound like you haven't yet recompiled the nvidia kernel driver against
the new kernel. After you do that it should work just fine.

On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 21:31, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> On my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, XF runs fine with kernel 2.4.14.  With
> kernel 2.4.18, the NVidia driver starts to load, then exits and XF won't
> start.  Is anyone aware of any kernel options that might affect the
> NVidia driver loading or of any issues with the 2.4.18 kernel? 
> Obviously, the XF86Config-4 file and all other files are the same.  Only
> the kernel and module files are different.  Below are sections from
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> 
> 
> ----------------kernel 1.4.18---------------------------
> (II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0
>         ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 565
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NvAGP" "3"
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Use of any AGP requested (try AGPGART, then try NVIDIA's
> AGP)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE0000000
> (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xFC000000
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------kernel 1.4.14---------------------------
> (II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0
>         ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 565
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NvAGP" "3"
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Use of any AGP requested (try AGPGART, then try NVIDIA's
> AGP)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE0000000
> (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xFC000000
> (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 32768 kBytes
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display Device 0: maximum pixel clock at  8 bpp: 350 MHz
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display Device 0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 350 MHz
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display Device 0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 300 MHz
> (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
> 
> 
> 
> 
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