On Fri Aug 01, 2003 at 06:08:17PM -0500, Jeffrey Litterick wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a computer with a Geforce 4. I am or > should say was using the standard NVdriver that was installed automatically > with Mandrake 9.1. > > When I first installed Mandrake I had the same problem then was I do with > the secure kernel but the enterprise kernel worked just fine. So I just > changed my default kernel to the enterprise one. > > The problem is that I used RPMDrake to update my kernel to the new .25 > versions which also fixed a problem I had with ipsec not starting on > startup. But after the update I could no longer start the X server. > Because the NVdriver kernel module was not being loaded. I checked the > modules.conf and modules file and everything is correct but a modprobe > returned with a "Could not find file" and lsof showed that it was not being > loaded. > > Doing a file search I found that the NVdriver.o.gz was only in the old .13 > enterprise kernel module directory and was not in the new updated kernels > module file directory. So I first I tried to just copy the driver over and > run a depmod -a but it came back with unresolved symbols. Then modprobe > could find the file but of course would not load it because of the > unresolved symbols.
You had the binary driver for nvidia installed. I did build a new one and it should be on Club (I didn't put it there, but asked someone else to). I just assumed it would be there. If it isn't, I can email the webmaster again and get him to put it up. I'm on holidays right now, still reading mail, but anything that requires work will have to wait till I get back. =) What you can also try is to use the "nv" driver for X (I believe that's it). That's the non-binary/commercial version of the driver, and should work although you likely won't get 3D or acceleration. Since none of that matters to me, and since I dislike the binary drivers, I use the nv driver instead of the one nvidia closed. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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