Nvidia problems

[Dan]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 04:05 -0400, Dan wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>
>>     
> "/sbin/lsmod" works for me as a regular user.
> You need the path but do not need to be root to run it. 
>
>   
Oh, for me too. Did they change that in FC5? /sbin used to be root-read 
only.
-Dan