On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Also make sure you comment out the Load "dri" and Load "GLCore" lines. > > There wasn't one in my XF86Config. > > > For starters, you can check that the driver is there. If the nvidia-glx > > package (the one you built) is installed, you can use dpkg -L nvidia-glx > > to see a list of its files. One of them should be > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o . > > this is what 'dpkg -L nvidia-glx' says:
Is the driver actually loaded? timshel# lsmod Module Size Used by vmnet 17408 6 vmmon 18032 0 ip_masq_vdolive 1488 0 (unused) ip_masq_raudio 3088 0 (unused) ip_masq_user 2620 0 (unused) ip_masq_irc 2096 0 (unused) ip_masq_quake 1492 0 (unused) ip_masq_ftp 3616 0 (unused) NVdriver 814112 10 I found that even after installing the deb files I had to manualy add NVdriver to /etc/modules. I don't know if I should have just turned on the "auto" option shown below or what, and I'm confused about kmod and kerneld and which if any I should be running... # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # An entry named `auto' will cause the system to start kerneld immediately. # Kerneld then loads modules on demand. `noauto' disables kerneld completely. #auto NVdriver ...RickM...
