On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Haines Brown wrote: > Paul, > > Here I sit, almost dead in the water. Confident that I could run emacs > at the command prompt outside X (I'm writing now with emacs-rmail, but > have lost X altogether), I went ahead and installed the two rpm files > and edited my XF86Config-4 file. The result was loss of access to my X > server. I tried but failed to back out of the driver installation > by reverting to the old config file with its nv driver. > > RPM Installation suggested a possibly conflicting MESA or stale nVidia > distribution, but I have neither. libglx.a, etc., files renamed to > xxx...rpmSAVE. I don't know whether a recovery of my old set up would > require renaming those file to their original names as well as > reverting to the old configuration file.
Possibly. Libraries are usually backward-compatible, though. > > When I went to start X, I got errors that nvidia had failed to > initialize the NVdriver kernel module. Indeed, running lsmod does not > report it, although I checked with rpm to verify the driver installed > (rpm verifies the NVIDIA_kernel version number). If I tried insmod > nvidia (or nVidia, NVidia, NVdriver, etc.) it says driver not > found. There's nothing that looks like an nvidia driver in > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions. The /dev files are present, though. rpm will tell you if you ask, what files are contained in a package: rpm -ql <package name> Sorry, I am not familiar with video drivers as kernel modules. That might be a feature of X release 4 that I haven't got around to yet. kernel modules live usually in /lib/modules/`uname -r` Hmmm, try /usr/X11R6/lib/modules What is in /usr/X11R6/bin/X ? That used to be a symbolic link to the X server. > > I tried running Xconfigurator. It sees my GeForce3 card, but can't > probe it (it did so originally), probably because of no loaded driver. So > manual configuration of the card fails. > > I don't know the exact driver name I should be using, nor am I certain > of where it should be located, and why insmod does not see it. I've no > clue where to begin. I sent the log file off to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Until they reply (if they reply), I'm unable to > do much work. > > If you have the patience, I'd like to know the name and location of > the nvidia driver file so that I might verify its presence and perhaps > give insmod a hand. > > Haines Brown > - ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
