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Olle Eriksson wrote: | On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22.18, Tim Beauregard wrote: |>I am unable to use the nvidia module compiled from nvidia-kernel-source |>that is used with the nvidia-glx package. On boot-up, the computer |>freezes when gdm starts. The error message I get in the logs is |>Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module |>This is using a 2.6.7 compiled kernel on Debian unstable system. |>I have tried recompiling the kernel, as well as reinstalling the entire |>system to no avail. The nv module works fine. |>I cannot obtain any more log messages as the computer freezes and |>requires reboot, losing any messages before they are written to the |>hard drive. |>I think the problem started after an apt-get update/upgrade, the |>nvidia-glx package may have been upgrade. |>Has anyone else had trouble like this? Any suggestions greatly |>appreciated. | | I am not an expert here, but how about compiling nvidia module with | 'module-assistant install nvidia'. (Make sure you have modele-assistant | installed, maybe something else is needed too). Then that will download, | compile and install the nvidia kernel module. | I had to do 'module-assistant upgrade nvidia' after an apt-get upgrade. | After that I had to remove and insert the new kernel module with 'rmmod | nvidia' and 'modprobe nvidia'. | Olle
This may be the solution I'm after, but don't know how to apply it to my system; I'm not familiar with module-assistant. I compile the nvidia module in conjunction with the kernel:
apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.7 nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common tar xvjf kernel-source-2.6.7.bz2 tar xvzf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz ln -s kernel-source-2.6.7 linux cd linux (fakeroot make-kpkg clean) make menuconfig fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=20041201 kernel_image modules_image dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.7-20041201.deb nvidia-kernel-2.6.7-20041201.deb reboot apt-get install nvidia-glx (dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx)
Where in all this would I run module-assistant?
Thanks for your advice,
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