On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 14:13:08 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > On 4/21/07, BartlebyScrivener wrote: >> But I had a similar issue after a routine Etch update. I found the >> answer by following this: >> >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=10812 >> >> error message was FATAL module Nvidia not found > > The problem is that it worked this morning, but does not work this > afternoon, after "apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade" that didn't > include the Nvidia drivers. I looked first, since I have always > compiled my own nvidia driver since 2003 on this machine. > >> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > Except for including "nvidia" in /etc/modules, the instructions given > are what I did. Oh, but to compile I followed the instructions in > /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian, which does not use > Module Assistant. > > I've also done it with Module Assistant, and it has worked both ways > in the past. > > So I loaded the module by hand first, > > # rmmod nvidia > # modprobe nvidia > NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 > 21:56:04 PDT 2006
OK, that is the kernel module /lib/modules/<your-kernel-version>/nvidia/nvidia.ko > # /etc/init.d/kdm restart > > and the error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log are (forgive me, typing > in by hand) > > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" > (WW) Warning, couldn't load module nvidia > (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) > > > Well, as you can see, something is very confused. I have no idea what > changed this morning, certainly the versions on the nvidia kernel > driver and nvidia-glx are the same, which was my first concern and has > happened in the past. It seems that the Xorg nvidia driver module is missing. It should be at /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (see also Ron's earlier message). Is this file present on your system? -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
