On Thursday 06 November 2003 22.27, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, everything is emerged and I've modified the XF86config file as > instructed. I'm getting an error message > > NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or > directory) > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! > > Indeed, /dev/nvidiactl does not exist. > > Are there any specific options I needed to enable in my kernel to > make this work? agpgart? Other stuff? dri/drm? That's required by the > Radeon family, but this is a new box and new kernel, so likely I didn't > get somethign turned on if required.
You need to load the kernel module: modprobe nvidia and maybe add nvidia to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.[456] /Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list