michael wrote:
Hi - trying to follow instructions for nvidia drivers and thought I'd made it but i get the following which makes no sense to me... all ptrs welcome michael@ratty:/etc/X11$ sudo modprobe nvidia FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.8-3-686-smp/nvidia/nvidia.ko): No such device michael@ratty:/etc/X11$ file /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-686-smp/nvidia/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-686-smp/nvidia/nvidia.ko: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped michael@ratty:/etc/X11$ ie the file is there!
I think the nvidia.ko file is OK, but when you modprobe it it cannot
find the device which it wants to open. I have /dev/nvidia0 and
/dev/nvidiactl, are those device nodes present on your system? Maybe the
problem is due to a missing alias definition in modules.alias. Here is
what I have:
$ grep nvidia /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias
alias char-major-195-* nvidia
alias pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00* nvidia
alias pci:v000010DEd000001E0sv*sd*bc06sc00i00* nvidia_agp
alias pci:v000010DEd000001A4sv*sd*bc06sc00i00* nvidia_agp
I hope this helps; I have never had this "No such device" error myself,
therefore I can only make some wild guesses.
Regards,
Florian