John B wrote:
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:40, Sid Boyce wrote:
John B wrote:
Heya gang,
I don't know why or how, but when I first installed 9.2 on a spare hdd that shared windows with it, the Nvidia driver installed and worked just fine (though it took twice to get it to take). Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd?
If the XF86Config that worked is still available, copy it across to this disk. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues, it may reveal the cause. 9.2 installs can go any way from great to pear-shaped. After installing 6629, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I changed Driver "nv" to "nvidia", but that didn't work, so in the vesa section, I kept playing with changing Driver "fbdev" to "nvidia" and eventually got a display. I've since made a new xorg.conf using xorgconfig as the display defaulted to 640x480 for all Modes frequencies in the original, because it somehow picked up the wrong Horiz and Vert frequecies or may be finger trouble on my part.
Nothing in the log helps, only one single line with an error and it's what was displayed when I tried to run the 'test' in sax2. If I try to change the driver from 'nv' to nvidia', what should I do afterwards, just reboot? At the boot prompt, enter 3 on the option line and after you've logged in as root, issue sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run After that builds "init 5", if you get thrown back into a VC, you can do "init 3" as you need to be in runlevel 3 in order to build the driver, make any changes like changing "nv" to "nvidia", then "init 5".
There was no 'vesa' nor 'fbdev' sections in my xorg.conf...is this bad?
No, it may just have been the way my xorg.conf got built during the 9.2 install.
Addition check =============== lsmod|grep nvidia -- to check the module gets loaded.
Nothing happened. What should have happened?
John
# lsmod|grep nvidia nvidia 3466268 12 nvidia_agp 7516 1 agpgart 33128 2 nvidia_agp That means the nvidia module didn't load automatically if nvidia wasn't shown with lsmod, /etc/modprobe.conf should have a line "alias char-major-195* nvidia" so it fires up at boot, but manually you can issue "modprobe nvidia", then check it's loaded, if it complains, /var/log/nvidia-installer.log should be checked to see that it built and installed properly ---- # ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/ . .. nvidia.ko # Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====