> First of course be sure that /lib/modules/2.6.9/nvidia/nvidia.ko exists. > That's still the standard location for that driver, AFAIK.
Yes, it's there. > Run lsmod | grep nvidia. Is the nvidia module already loaded? If not, > then modprobe nvidia. What's the result? Now can X start? lsmod shows no modules loaded. modprobe nvidia generates no errors, and a subsequent lsmod show nvidia to be loaded. However, X still won't start (with the nvidia driver, that is; the nv driver works OK). > The solution may be as simple > as mentioning nvidia in /etc/modules, to force it to be loaded > automatically at boot. I did that, but it didn't resolve the problem, not surprisingly as loading nvidia with modprobe didn't fix it temporarily. I am by no means an expert on the workings of XFree86, but my understanding it that the nvidia driver consists of both a kernel object file (nvidia.ko) as well as a user-space object file, and I think the latter is the problem here. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers contains a whole series of $DRIVER.o files for different drivers which appears to correspond with all of the driver alternatives offered when using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. There isn't any file in there named nvidia.o or anything similar, and I wonder if that is the problem. Thanks for the suggestions David Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
