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Re: Updated Sid today, xorg cannot find "nvidia" driver



On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 15:48:51 -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
>>(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>>(WW) Warning, couldn't load module nvidia
>>(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>>(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
>
>Ron Johnson, Jr. suggested:
>/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
>
>Ok, I looked there and found nvidia_drv.o
>
>All the rest of the files are *.so
>
>I also notice that there is no "nv" driver in that directory.
>
>I put in a link nvidia_drv.so => nvidia_drv.o, and tried again, still no luck.
>
>However, I did notice that the nv driver was not in that directory, and
>there were a lot of other things that were (from the xfree => xorg
>transition I guess) so I removed those other packages and installed the
>fbdev, nv and vesa drivers. The nv driver now works, so at least I'll
>be able to reply to the list from Kmail next time. :^)
>
>Still wondering why the nvidia module isn't being detected.

I can report the same problem on one of my systems.  I'm holding off on
updating my other system until there are reports of this being solved.

/M

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