For the record, I have no problems with the nvidia driver loading when
I start X. I am using 4191 series. But, I do see a boot message saying
nvdriver failed to load. lsmod, before starting X confirms this. It
loads fine upon "startx"
My initial problem, however, remains. Probably due to my KT133 based
motherboard, I am not able to use AGP, either as AGPGART or NvAGP. GL
apps will hang the machine in 3 to 20 seconds. Any howto should either
mention this, or, if someone has solved this problem, the solution
should be noted.
On Sunday 16 February 2003 04:54, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Which docs? The problem didnt occur with a video driver update, but
> something else within gentoo. I am not talking about the nvidia
> driver but the NVdriver as nvdriver has never been installed. It
> seems like the sudden failure of older systems to load the NVdriver
> is a gentoo problem.
>
> Again, this is an existing, stable gentoo system that has been using
> the same NVdriver for some time, suddenly fails to autoload it! I
> have never installed an nvidia sourced driver or unstable emerged
> driver on this system, but always via stable emerge. I do not have
> many unstable packages installed, and can see that that could cause
> problems, but not in this case.
>
> BillK
>
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 17:02, Andrew wrote:
> > On 16 Feb 2003 16:43:41 +0800
> >
> > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > or what seems more likely is that gentoo or nvidia has changed
> > > something that has screwed older systems, without telling people
> > > what they should do to correct the problem. How many people like
> > > me did an upgrade, only to find NVdriver no longer autoloads
> > > without any information as to why?, and therefore put it in
> > > modules.autoload (which after all is its purpose!) On my system,
> > > emerge nvidia-kernel builds NVdriver, no nvidia that I can see.
> > >
> > > BillK
> >
> > Read the docs, and you'll see that the drivers up to 3123 created a
> > module called "NVdriver" and that 4191 create a module called
> > nvidia. Gentoo didn't do this, nVidia did. And because so many
> > people have issues with the newest drivers (4191) they're marked as
> > untested/unstable or ~arch. I bet on your system you don't use the
> > untested/unstable branch of Gentoo.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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