From: joy Subject: Re: X not starting at all Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:00:06 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4005283E.7020204@sancharnet.in> References: <4002CF61.6040507@sancharnet.in> <1073932422.18113.5.camel@mattlinux> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Matthew Frederico , mailing list Matthew Frederico wrote: >>From the looks of it you are using a 2.6 kernel... You have to have >patched NVIDIA drivers to make this work. You will probably get better >support at http://www.nvnews.net, but IIRC, installing these drivers >will get you working. (It did for me) > >Here is the link to the 2.6 patched NVIDIA drivers: >http://www.minion.de/ > >Hope that helps! > >-- Matthew Frederico > > I did that, and all I got was the same error: X was trying to load the same nv driver even though the compilation process sucessfully installedf the nvidia.ko driver. How do I work around this? >On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:46, joy wrote: > > >>Hello, >>it's me again. >>Thanks again for the help you guys gave me when I had a problem with my >>modules. >>from when I had installed Woody, I was not able to startx as I have a >>Geforce4 MX 440 SE which was not supported by the nv driver in X (I have >>version 4.1.0.1) >> >> >>I got a new driver from the Nvidia site (the latest is pkg2 I think, I >>have pkg0 ).I installed it and yet startx would not work. >>since X loads its drivers from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers , I moved >>the new NV module (nvidia.ko ) and renamed it nv_drv.o which was the nv >>driver (this is illogical, I know , but I was desperate.....) >>and it gave me another error message module does not have nvModuledata >>data object and died on me. I just got Gnome 2.4 and I'm desperate to >>install it. >>So anybody with the ideas flashing, >>HELP! >>thanx in advance, >>Joy >> >> >> >>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>A life without purpose is like a bird that never learnt to fly....... >>>I am the bird that regularly flies Lufthansa >>> >>> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs >> >> >> >> > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs