this seems to be a relatively common problem, and have a relatively simple solution.
i just added bugzilla bug: http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1283 hopefully, it will document the problem. marshall, i quoted parts of your email, but forgot to attribute it. apoliogies. john On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 15:09 -0500, Marshall Crocker wrote: > > It seems that this problem may be caused by changes to xorg that affects > > nvidia > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg123133.html > > > Nope, turns out I need a different set of nvidia legacy drivers. I have > a Geforce2 MX which is at the very bottom of the cards supported with > the 96XX legacy drivers. Now I've installed the 9639 drivers and it got > the i686 kmdl correctly. I still had the same problem with X not > finding the nvidia module but turns out I had the nvidia-graphics > package installed that only works with the 100.X.X drivers. Removed it > and everything is working great. > > Too bad I didn't figure this out earlier instead of wasting a whole day > trying to get the 7185 drivers to work :(. Nvidia is definitely getting > confusing with all these different classes of drivers. At least they > continue to support all the older cards. > > Marshall > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > atrpms-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users -- cleverly disguised as a responsible adult. _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
