On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my > Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my > Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with 32 MB of > SDRAM. I am running kernel 2.4.9. I installed the latest nVidia drivers > (1541) using the Debian installer packages. The video card worked fine with > the stock 'nv' driver that came with XFree86 4. maybe you should alternatively to use the tarballs from nVidia and use their make install
> > With the nVidia driver, however, X tried to load, flashes some dark blue > colors on the screen, then quits with the error: > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! regarding the log, it may be possible that you have not set a correct colour depth. please try 16bits; but i dunno if it is the error, cos the error message is not more specific. > > I have included the output of my X server below. Any ideas what may be > causing this? I did read in the troubleshooting section of nVidia's > README.txt file for the Linux drivers that TNT cards may need the memory type > (SDRAM) specified in the source code for the kernel nVidia driver. Might this > be the problem? > > Thanks, > > Ben hope that helped, once i had the same message, but do not remember the problem; too long ago :-) Timo > [...] p.s. dunno if it only hits me, but please check the settings of your mailer, it uses loooooooooooong lines. plz set it to <80 chars in width, thx.
