On Jun 29 at 11:52AM-0400, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Sunday 29 June 2003 11:41 am, Alberto Bert wrote: > > what modprobe is? > > > > I discovered that there is an nvidia-kernel in portage tree! > > I've tryed to download it, but now at startx the error message is: > > > > Fialed to load module nvidia (module doesn't exists, 0) > > > > I'm a little bit lost... Should I do something else after > > installation of the nvidia-kernel by gentoo? > > > > Alberto > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > Before issuing the command "startx", as root issue "modprobe nvidia" > without the quotes) then still as root do"lsmod" check the output of > that command to see that nvidia is listed. if so, become <USER> again > and do "startx" this should do it, If not report back with errors.
I understood how to unload the old module. OK, just a warning reguarding the non GPL nature of nvidia. lsmod seems to give good result, but still the same error: nvidia module does'nt exist. Alb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
