Re: video card problems

I don't think that the 'emerge nvidia-kernel' loads the module into the
kernel, so you should just have to load in manually:

modprobe nvidia

Then:

lsmod

and make sure it is there.

Then make sure you add it to your modules.autoload file so that it will
load autmatically on reboot.

Good luck!

Anthony Valentine

Troy Melhase wrote:

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>On Tuesday 27 April 2004 09:05 pm, irish0red@juno.com wrote:
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>>I am currently having problems getting my graphics accelerator to work. I
>>have the driver currently set to "nv" but when i did "emerge nvidia-kernel"
>>i went into XF86config and and changed the driver to "nvidia" to try to run
>>the updated driver. When i did that and restarted X i got this error [EE]
>>failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
>>[EE] no drivers available
>>
>>so far i have tried emerge -C, and redoing my kernel 2.4.24 then re did the
>> emerge and still no luck. If anyone has any suggests i would greatly
>>appreciate it.
>>
>>
>
>I'm no expert on this, but ...
>
>Have you also emerged nvidia-glx? Do you have loadable module support in your
>kernel? Is your kernel 2.4 or 2.6? Have you searched your filesystem for a
>file named "nvidia.o" ? Does /usr/src/linux point to the correct kernel?
>Have you tried "modprobe nvidia" ?
>
>Also, check the gentoo forums.
>
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