Re: X can't find nvidia module

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks Vincent, let me try that. I usually use the closed source NVidia 
> driver from upstream, this is the first time that I have tried building 
> the driver myself.

That was it. I installed nvidia-glx and that pulled in 
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia and now X comes up. Thanks again.

Hugo