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Re: Can't start X with Nvidia [solved]



Op zo 19-01-2003, om 17:33 schreef Sridhar M.A.:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:56:18AM -0500, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
>    > On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, ajlewis2@intac.com wrote:
>    > >
>    > > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver.  I think the problem
>    > > is that you are loading a module called NVdriver and you have
>    > > nvidia listed as the driver in the X config file.  Maybe try
>    > > changing the Driver in X to NVdriver to see if that works.  Or I
>    > > guess you could put an alias in so that nvidia would be the same
>    > > as NVdriver.
>    > 
>    > NVDriver is the linux kernel module.  nvidia is the X display driver.
>    > 
> This was the case in 1.0.3123 version of nvidia drivers. As of 1.0.4191,
> both of them are nvidia. 
> 
> In case anyone has similar problems, the latest version solved my
> problem. Just downloaded the 1.0.4191 tgz's, did a make and make
> install. X started just fine. Finally, I could play tuxracer :-D
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Sridhar M.A.

I'm glad i'm not the only one that compiled the nvidia drivers in order
to play tuxracer :)



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