Re: Trouble Installing nvidia-graphics-driver on Etch

[James Westby <james@jameswestby.net>]

Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:
> Hi again,
> When I try to start X, I return to console after ~3 seconds of blank 
> screen.
> The system itself does not hang.

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # modprobe nvidia
> FATAL: Error inserting nvidia 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-486/nvidia/nvidia.ko): No s uch device
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
> (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" does not exist.
> (WW) The NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro GPU installed in this
> (WW)      system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy drivers.
> (WW)      Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
> (WW)      more information.  The 1.0-8178 NVIDIA driver will ignore
> (WW)      this GPU.  Continuing probe...
> (EE) No devices detected.

There's your problem. Version 1.0-8178 is too new for your graphics 
card. Do what it says and visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
to download the legacy drivers.

James