Re: Nvidia kernel not autoloading[SOLVED]

[Harvey Kelly <kellyh@clara.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 20:18, Tinus Kotzé wrote:
> How does your /etc/X11/XFree86-4.conf look?
> 
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 21:44, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > 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?

update-module worked after alias char-major-195 nvidia

I'm sure I did that first (obviously not) but it worked just now.

A BIG thanks to all who replied.

Harvey

> > 
> > 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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