Did the lsmod and it did show up at the top of the list, but it says that it's unused. Interesting. Does unused mean though the driver is there and loaded it's not actually being used because something has yet to tell it to be used. Just guessing; I have no clue! LOL
Thanks, Steve On Tuesday 11 December 2001 20:33, you wrote: > you could also run /sbin/lsmod and you should see NVdriver under the list, > if so it's loaded > > On Wednesday 12 December 2001 18:39, you wrote: > > Paul: > > > > Thanks for the tip! > > > > > > This was done with the stock kernel. My wife would kill me if I messed > > with her Linux! She never has any problems and it never has to be > > shutdown. I was lucky enough to get her to let me do this so she could > > play Unreal Tournament. > > > > I will give this a try and see if it works. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve > > > > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 09:28 pm, you wrote: > > > This happenned to me as well. Did you by any chance update her kernel > > > (the kernel module is compiled for the stock kernel). > > > > > > What I did was download the source rpm and then (as root): > > > > > > rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel.src.rpm > > > rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_kernel...rpm > > > > > > then install the NVIDIA_GLX.rpm > > > > > > -Paul Rodríguez > > > > > > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 22:09, Steven Spears wrote: > > > > Hello: > > > > > > > > I'm trying to install the new NVidia drivers on my wife's machine and > > > > I'm having a bit of a problem. When I install the rpm for 8.1 it says > > > > this: > > > > > > > > Preparing... > > > > ########################################### [100%] 1:NVIDIA_kernel > > > > ########################################### [100%] modprobe: Can't > > > > locate module NVdriver > > > > > > > > NVdriver installed successfully > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm using this command: "rpm -ivh NVIDIA* > > > > > > > > Any help or points to the proper location for help would be greatly > > > > appreciated. I've already tried going through the archives to no > > > > avail. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------=_1008126640-29021-1628 > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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