Re: X can't find nvidia module

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2012-11-13 15:51:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> But when I startx, X can't find the nvidia module:
> 
> ...
> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
> ...
> 
> Any suggestions as to what to do next?

You probably need xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (as in addition to the
NVIDIA kernel driver, you need the NVIDIA Xorg driver). But when I
was using the NVIDIA drivers in the past, I installed nvidia-glx,
which depends on xserver-xorg-video-nvidia and other useful packages.

HTH,

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