Re: Nvidia kernel not autoloading
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:31, stavel@brailcom.org wrote:
> >>>>> "Harvey" == Harvey Kelly <kellyh@clara.co.uk> writes:
>
> Harvey> Maybe I'm missing something, but upon booting-up,
> Harvey> NVIDIA-kernel doesn't auto-install, and I have to su and
> Harvey> cd ./NVIDIA_k* and then make install every time. There's
> Harvey> no problem with the NVIDIA_GLX though.
>
> There may not be aliases in /etc/modutils/{aliases,*}
>
> alias char-major-195 NVdriver ... ver 13..
> #alias char-major-195 nvidia ... new version of NVIDIA 14..
>
> Do not forget to call update-module :-)
Ermm... how do I call update-module :) no, really, how do I do that?
For the record this is what is spews out...
(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-4191 Mon Dec 9 11:51:41 PST 2002
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
complied for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0
(**) 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): Linear framebuffer at 0xD6000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xD4000000
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
Thanks.
Harvey
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