Re: nvidie module not found but is present

[michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:30 -0500, 
> >   Re: nvidie module not found but is p  [ Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.lei ]

> > 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.

I have said /dev files and the same instances of 'nvidia' in
modules.alias