Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?
Hey folks,
Bob Proulx wrote:
>Matt Price wrote:
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>>Ms Linuz wrote:
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>>>Matt Price wrote:
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>>>>Ms Linuz wrote:
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>>>>>Look at your /etc/modules and make sure there is 'nvidia' ( without
>>>>>quote ) line exists.
>>>>>If not, add nvidia in your /etc/modules
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>You should not need to have "nvidia" in /etc/modules. If you do then
>something else is broken.
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>>>You said you've used the 7174 version, afaik the recent version is 7667.
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>Referring to the 7667 sounds like pulling bits directly from nVidia
>because 7174 is still current in sid.
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>>>If you don't mind you could use it and see the result.
>>>Make sure changing X conf file following the doc, make sure you have
>>>nvidia in your /etc/modules, and have this line on
>>>/etc/udev/permissions.rules
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>>>SUBSYSTEM=="nvidia", GROUP="video", MODE="0666"
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>>>
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>I have never needed that when using the packages for Debian.
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In any case, the line was already there -- either I added it myself
long ago or it was added by some nvidia package along the way...
>>(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
>>(EE) NVIDIA(0) *** Aborting ***
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>And of course it would be nice if it said why it did not load the
>nvidia driver. That is the problem to deduce right now.
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>What is the output of lspci?
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> lspci | grep VGA
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gives: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17
[GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3). this is NOT a new card! used to work fine
with the 4496 nvidia-kernel package under 2.4.23.
>>I can loadthe nvidia module manually using modconf, and no error
>>messages are reported
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>Try loading it with modprobe and seeing if there are any errors.
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> modprobe nvidia
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none yet.
>If not then what is the output of this:
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> cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
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>Do you have a really, really, *really* new graphics card that would
>not be supported by 7174?
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definitely not...
>Bob
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thnks everyone for the help. no ned to apologize ms linux!
matt
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