On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:34:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > hi everyone, > > I run woody, and have recently followed Colin's excellent > instructions on howw to set up a sid chroot directory > (http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html). Sounds like the Ambigous Colin (W.) Conspiracy has found another victim :) > I'm trying to get X > to start up from chroot, and keep getting a "no screens found" error, > accompanied by "can't load module "nvidia" -- module not found"). > These are errors I remember from my initial installation of debian, > before I installed the nvidia drivers (which, unfortunately, I requrie > in order to make my graphics card work at all). > > At present I have no kernel installed in the chroot directory. I had > thought that, since I really only wnat to chroot into it, I would > always be using the kernel from my main installation; and that > therefore the location of modules, etc., would still make sense to the > chroot installation. Yep, unless you start using theings like User-Mode Linux (which is hella cool, btw). > Now that appears not to be the case. Does anyone know how to fix > this? For instance, can I somehow tell chroot that it needs to look > back in the main installation for modules? or wouldi t help if I > installed the kernel form my main installation in the chroot/boot > directory, and recompiled the nvidia modules? Presumably you can still see it in a 'lsmod' from within the chroot? Have you created the /dev/nv* devices? Do they have reasonable permissions? -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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