Nvidia problems

[Dan]

Andrew wrote:
> Jörn Rink wrote:
>> Am Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:07:44 -0600
>> hat andrew <fedora at tolboe.org> (andrew) folgendes geschrieben:
>>
>>  
>>> My xorg.conf is using nvidia for the device driver and I have Load
>>> "glx" and Load "dri" in my modules section (among other things).
>>> Here is the odd part and maybe this is the root of the problem but I
>>> had to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so to 
>>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so to just get X to start
>>> up. But still no glx support.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> first of all, have you compiled the NVidia driver? and which driver?
>>
>> Here i compiled the 8178 driver. I have to compile it, that means,
>> download the driver, change the file to 777 and execute it.
>>
>> The driver itself compiles and installs, and as i remember correctly,
>> it changes the xorg.conf.
>>
>> After compiling it, there must be a nvidia.ko module
>> under /lib/modules/yourkernel/extra/nvidia
>> and an entry in /etc/modprobe.conf.
>>
>> The module has to be loaded, you can check this with lsmod | grep -i
>> nvidia.
>>
>>
>> Your xorg.conf file must have these entries:
>>
>> Section "Module"
>>         Load  "dbe"
>>         Load  "extmod"
>>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>>         Load  "record"
>>         Load  "freetype"
>>         Load  "type1"
>>         Load  "glx"
>> EndSection
>>
>> AND NO DRI ENTRY !!!
>>
>> and this entry:
>> Section "Device"
>>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>>         Driver      "nvidia"
>>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>>         BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT]"
>> EndSection
>>
>> The driver has to be nvidia, not nv
>>
>> Remember, the nvidia driver only compiles in runlevel 3, no X should
>> run.
>>
>> Good Luck
>>  Jörn Rink
>>
>>   
> Thx!  I forgot about the modprobe.conf however lsmod does not work.  
> What package does that come in?
>
> Thanks
> Andrew
>
module-init-tools . It's in /sbin, so you need to be root (not sudo either).
-Dan