On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:47 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > These errors (and the warnings above) indicate that you need to load the > > framebuffer driver for nvidia cards, "modprobe nvidiafb". > > Hmm, looks like it's time to really display my ignorance. Is this a > driver in the sense of kernel driver - and in particular, a kernel > driver that's loaded dynamically and not built into the main kernel? > Or is this a "driver" in some sense specific to X?
It's a kernel driver, or module, it's usually dynamically loaded in Debian. > I'm inclined to presume the former - but if so, well, the system is > running on a kernel that was current when 'woody' was still the stable > release of debian. Did kernels of that generation even have this > driver - or am I looking at a need to upgrade my kernel in order to > use this version of xfree86 on this system? (Or perhaps more correctly > - in order to use it without much hand tweaking of files that > dpkg-reconfigure can't seem to get right - since commenting out > various things in XF86Config-4 did get X basically working.) From your error message, if you didn't change the X configuration I would guess that it used to be loaded automatically before but wasn't after some update. Putting it in /etc/modules would fix that. I think it's included in both woody and sarge, but if memory serves me right, I think it used to be called rivafb? Anyway, "locate nvidiafb" should find it (if the locate database is up to date). Anyway, If you got X working without this, I wouldn't bother with it too much... -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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