> Hi, > > load the module before starting X. Hello, I got three answers to my question, and I answer now for all of the three here:
Istvan, Hermann: I installed the nvidia-kernel ebuild, and I load the nvidia kernel module before starting X. # lsmod|grep nvidia nvidia 3469788 0 agpgart 34508 2 nvidia,via_agp I realised that I have another nvidia kernel module: /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko Unfortunately X doesn't start with this module either. Neil: Yes, I know that the new version of Nvidia driver does not support my card, when I tried to install it warned me about it. So, I put those two lines into the package.mask file, and I installed nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 and nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6. I think, that X complains not about the kernel module, but the nvidia module of Xorg, which is located in /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o and part of the nvidia-glx package. Here is some part of the X log: (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] rev 21, Mem @ 0xf4000000/24, 0xf6000000/25, BIOS @ 0xf5ff0000/16 (II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 13:14:07 PST 2004 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 565 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF6000000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xF4000000 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. If other part of the log is needed to find out what's wrong, tell me, and I will provide it. Thank you, Istvan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
