On Saturday 23 February 2002 16.11, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
SuSE 7.1/nVidia GeForce2 w/65MB RAM/KDE 2.2.2 nVIDIA\NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.src.rpm and nVIDIA\NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.src.rpm rebuild and installed without warning or error messages. This worked with glx enabled without problems until I had to reinstall Linux to a reformatted ext2 partition. Even though I saved the functional SF86Config file before I reinstalled it no longer works.
Configured XWindows with Sax2, again without any errors, which allows a resolution of 1600x1200 (best the monitor can give). However, when I edit XF86Config according to the NVIDIA Installation Guide (used to work) startx bombs (the log file is attached).
The error messages are:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
This is the kernel module.
yet, further up in the log file,. I find:
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.2313 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
This is the XFree86 module
I don't have the faintest idea as to what's going on here, but I need to be able to use glx for a number o application.
Thanks in advance for any help.
The nvidia driver consists of two parts: one X module, which seems to have loaded fine, and one kernel module, that was compiled for a different kernel than the one you're running. Recompile the kernel driver the same way you did before, and restart X. You may need to do a rmmod NVdriver when X is down. regards Anders