From: joy <gracecott@sancharnet.in>
To: Matthew Frederico <matt@ultrize.com>,
mailing list <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: X not starting at all
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:00:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4005283E.7020204@sancharnet.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1073932422.18113.5.camel@mattlinux
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
>>
>>
>>
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2004-01-12 16:46 X not starting at all joy
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2004-01-14 11:30 ` joy [this message]
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2004-01-15 4:26 joy
2004-01-15 5:05 beolach
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2004-01-16 6:09 beolach
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