I did try from scratch as it is a fresh SuSE 7.2 install. I did build the kernel driver myself but still no joy. Avi --On Monday, September 03, 2001 09:52:34 PM -0500 Curtis Rey wrote:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***

I think this is your answer. I had the same problem when the NV drivers were made for the 2.4.0 kernel only. When I upgraded to 2.4.2 the kernal drivers failed, such as in this case. Did you use the *.src.rpm.s. You'll probably have to remove all traces of the other drivers and files and then try the source rpms. I could be wrong - someone correct me if so please.

HTH, Curtis

On Monday 03 September 2001 08:46 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote:

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Hi,

I am trying to get the Nvidia driver working on my machine:

Video Card: Nvidia GeoForce 3 Kernel Official SuSE kernel 2.4.7-SMP running on a dual Athlon CPU machine. I have updated my machine with the latest XF 4.1, SAX2, hwinfo RPMS.

These are steps I took:

1. I downloaded the latest SuSE drivers from Nvidia and via YOU (apparently YOU downloads them from there as well, I just wanted to make sure that none of them works).

2. Installed both the kernel and the GLX RPMS.

Ran sax2. It fails and points me to /var/log/SaX.log in which I found the following:

(II) NVIDIA: NVIDIA driver for: RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA TNT2 (Ultra), RIVA TNT2 (Vanta), RIVA TNT2 (M64), RIVA TNT2 (??), RIVA TNT2 (??), RIVA TNT2 (Integrated), GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 MX DDR, GeForce2 Go, GeForce2 MXR, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Ultra, Quadro2 Pro, GeForce3, GeForce3, GeForce3, GeForce3 (--) Chipset GeForce3 found (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 565 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF8000000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xF1000000 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error: no screens found

3. Decided to build the module myself from the source RPM. Issued rpm --rebuild on the kernel source. The RPM was built with no errors and I installed it.

4. Tried to do the same to the GLX source RPM but SuSE insists on creating a link from /usr/src/linux-2.4.4.SuSE to linux even though I am running 2.4.7.SuSE and it fails creating the RPM (of course, I don't have the source for 2.4.4 installed).

I also tried to remove teh two RPMs and built and installed the .tar.gz files, but then sax2 refused to work since it insisted on having the RPMs installed.

Any idea what may be the problem? Why does the nvidia driver fail to initialize?

Thanks, Avi

-- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com "I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the control-alt-delete reboot sequence

I managed to get the driver to work, but for a price (less available memory). Apparently the driver will not run with BIGMEMORY set to 4GB or 64GB. When I built the kernel without it, the module works fine although I lost about 128MB of memory out of the 1GB I have. The driver developers are looking into it. Luckily this machine is VERY fast otherwise I would have given up building so many kernels until I found one that worked. Avi --On Wednesday, September 05, 2001 02:53:40 PM -0500 "Victor R. Cardona" wrote:

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:29:42PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:

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I did try from scratch as it is a fresh SuSE 7.2 install. I did build the kernel driver myself but still no joy.

Did you configure your BIOS so that it assigns an IRQ to the video card? I had the same problem until I did that.

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Avi

--On Monday, September 03, 2001 09:52:34 PM -0500 Curtis Rey wrote:

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(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** -- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com

"I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the control-alt-delete reboot sequence

I switched to kernel 2.4.7, checked /etc/rc.d/rc.config and SCRIPT_3D is set to switch2nvidia_glx and yet no joy. The same error message. Avi --On Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:04:46 PM -0400 Karol Pietrzak wrote:

On 3 Sep 2001, Avi Schwartz wrote:

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I am trying to get the Nvidia driver working on my machine:

Video Card: Nvidia GeoForce 3 Kernel Official SuSE kernel 2.4.7-SMP running on a dual Athlon CPU machine. I have updated my machine with the latest XF 4.1, SAX2, hwinfo RPMS.

These are steps I took:

1. I downloaded the latest SuSE drivers from Nvidia and via YOU (apparently YOU downloads them from there as well, I just wanted to make sure that none of them works).

2. Installed both the kernel and the GLX RPMS.

Ran sax2. It fails and points me to /var/log/SaX.log in which I found the following:

(II) NVIDIA: NVIDIA driver for: RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA TNT2 (Ultra), RIVA TNT2 (Vanta), RIVA TNT2 (M64), RIVA TNT2 (??), RIVA TNT2 (??), RIVA TNT2 (Integrated), GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 MX DDR, GeForce2 Go, GeForce2 MXR, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Ultra,

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Quadro2 Pro, GeForce3, GeForce3, GeForce3, GeForce3 (--) Chipset GeForce3 found (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 565 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF8000000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xF1000000 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error: no screens found

Check out your /etc/rc.config . Search the file for 'switch2' and make sure its set to the nvidia driver. If that doesn't switch it, then...

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3. Decided to build the module myself from the source RPM. Issued rpm --rebuild on the kernel source. The RPM was built with no errors and I installed it.

Good, very good.

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4. Tried to do the same to the GLX source RPM but SuSE insists on creating a link from /usr/src/linux-2.4.4.SuSE to linux even though I am running 2.4.7.SuSE and it fails creating the RPM (of course, I don't have the source for 2.4.4 installed).

First, remove /usr/src/linux-2.4.4.SuSE and /usr/src/linux. Download the 2.4.7 source and extract it to /usr/src [ bzip2 -dc linux-2.4.7.tar.bz2 | tar -xf - -C /usr/src/ ]. Now try compiling the SRPM.

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I also tried to remove teh two RPMs and built and installed the .tar.gz files, but then sax2 refused to work since it insisted on having the RPMs installed.

-- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com "I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the control-alt-delete reboot sequence