modprobe nvidia returns nothing... But I did lsmod and modinfo nvidia and got the following: falcon:/home/jrn # lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P snd-pcm-oss 50020 1 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 15992 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] nvidia 1545696 10 (autoclean) snd-seq-midi 5248 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3304 0 [snd-seq-midi] snd-seq 43760 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event] snd-ens1371 13932 1 snd-pcm 74368 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371] snd-page-alloc 5868 0 [snd-pcm] snd-timer 17576 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 16064 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4928 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 40224 0 [snd-ens1371] snd 39396 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] falcon:/home/jrn # modprobe nvidia falcon:/home/jrn # modinfo nvidia filename: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o description: <none> author: <none> license: "NVIDIA" parm: silence_nvidia_output int parm: NVreg_VideoMemoryTypeOverride int parm: NVreg_EnableVia4x int parm: NVreg_EnableALiAGP int parm: NVreg_ReqAGPRate int parm: NVreg_UpdateKernelAGP int parm: NVreg_EnableAGPSBA int parm: NVreg_EnableAGPFW int parm: NVreg_SoftEDIDs int parm: NVreg_Mobile int parm: NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel int parm: NVreg_FlatPanelMode int Thanks... Jim
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 05:16, Jim Norton wrote:
jrn@falcon:~> uname -a Linux falcon 2.4.20 #6 Sun Apr 13 01:04:11 PDT 2003 i686 unknown jrn@falcon:~>
OK, my hunch was wrong.
Can you do "modprobe nvidia" ?
Here's what I did to enable 3d. I let SuSE's tools set up X without 3d. Then I changed the Driver from "nv" to "nvidia" and added Load "glx" to the modules section and that was it. Restart X, so the new driver takes effect.