Re: nvidia module

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:13:01AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 14:58 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support > > > Framework); > > > > Then why is

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:58:03 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: Hello Chris, >On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >> From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support >> Framework); >Then why isn't it dkmsf? :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The b

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 14:58 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support > > Framework); > > Then why isn't it dkmsf? Why is it mkdir and not md or mdir resp. why isn't m

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support > Framework); Then why isn't it dkmsf? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who a

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:03:40 +0200, Brad Rogers wrote: From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework); DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be upgraded without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to rebuild modules as you

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:49:04 +0300 andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: Hello andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr, >> Really? I've always needed an xorg.conf file to allow the use of the >> nVidia driver. >Yes man! its true. For example, if i reload system to my old kernel - >everything is ok. And i have n

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread andrey . rybak
> Really? I've always needed an xorg.conf file to allow the use of the > nVidia driver. Yes man! its true. For example, if i reload system to my old kernel - everything is ok. And i have not any xorg.conf. i should do rectification. I am talking about system on notebook with intel and nvidia vid

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-08 Thread Lotek
On 07/07/2013 12:01 PM, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: i have jessy. why modprobe cannot find nvidia_drv.so? when i used wheezy i didnot need the xorg.conf. it stopped to work after upgrading. There was no problem when i had upgraded from wheeze to jessy. But when kernel version was changed t

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:01:06 +0300 andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: Hello andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr, >i have jessy. why modprobe cannot find nvidia_drv.so? when i used >wheezy i didnot need the xorg.conf. it stopped to work after upgrading. Really? I've always needed an xorg.conf file to all

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-07 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > > > Check to see if you have a symbolic link "nvidia" > > in /usr/lib/nvidia which eventually points > > to /usr/lib/nvidia/current/nvidia_drv.so > yes i have: > > /usr/lib/nvidia/nvidia: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/nvidia' > /etc

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-07 Thread andrey . rybak
> Check to see if you have a symbolic link "nvidia" > in /usr/lib/nvidia which eventually points > to /usr/lib/nvidia/current/nvidia_drv.so yes i have: /usr/lib/nvidia/nvidia: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/nvidia' /etc/alternatives/nvidia: symbolic link to `/usr/lib/nvidia/current' # file /

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-07 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > hi! > if i do command: > # modprobe nvidia > i retrieve next message: > > FATAL: Module nvidia not found. > > but i have many nvidia-* packages installed > and between them: > > ii nvidia-kernel-common > 20130505+1 i386 NVIDIA b

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-07 Thread andrey . rybak
> For what Debian release, resp. from what repository? #lsb_release -a Release:testing Codename: jessie # uname -a Linux hostname 3.9-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.9.6-1 i686 GNU/Linux > The module might be somewhere in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ . #ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ build

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 17:19 +0300, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > hi! > if i do command: > # modprobe nvidia > i retrieve next message: > > FATAL: Module nvidia not found. > > but i have many nvidia-* packages installed > and between them: > > ii nvidia-kernel-common

Re: Nvidia module makes system unstable

2012-04-16 Thread Indulekha
Sean Whalen wrote: > Hello All, > > I recently made the switch from Kubuntu 11.10 to Debain stable. > Everything was running very well until I installed the Nvidia module > "the Debian way". Then, the system became highly unstable. I noticed > that the system would become very sluggish during sim

Re: Nvidia module makes system unstable

2012-04-15 Thread Eduardo Bearzoti
Hi Sean, For the past few days, I've been trying to install Squueze on my PC and have experienced very similar troubles. My card is a GeForce 8400 GS. The screen and the whole system freeze as soon as gdm3 starts. I installed the Nvidia module "the Debian Way", and also (after some reluctance)

Re: nvidia module successfully installed

2011-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Richard wrote: Hi I had to purge everything I downloaded previously, blacklist nouveau, kill X & gdm3, the run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run, then reboot. No more shakey display and I can watch TV again without X crashing. Good news. IMO the reboot is not necessary, just run NVIDIA-Linux-x86

Re: nvidia module successfully installed

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 20:32 +, Richard wrote: > Hi > I had to purge everything I downloaded previously, blacklist nouveau, kill X > & gdm3, the run > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run, then reboot. > No more shakey display and I can watch TV again without X crashing. Good news :) - Ralf -- T

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem [Solved]

2006-03-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tim Wood wrote: I decided to follow the advise in one of Florian' links (Thanks Florian) and use the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt patch to the 7676 driver. After fixing a few links, it's up and running. Must say that I'm a bit bemused at applying an 8178 patch to the 7676 driver,

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem [Solved]

2006-03-30 Thread Tim Wood
I decided to follow the advise in one of Florian' links (Thanks Florian) and use the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt patch to the 7676 driver. After fixing a few links, it's up and running. Must say that I'm a bit bemused at applying an 8178 patch to the 7676 driver, but have not gone

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-30 Thread Tim Wood
I receive the digest, so hope this reads ok. Tim Wood wrote: I have installed the new 2.6.16 kernel on two machines running Debian Sid and tried to install nvidia module. On both machines, the module compilation (using module-assistant) fails with some error messages (IIRC there was some erro

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-30 Thread Tim Wood
H.S. wrote: I have installed the new 2.6.16 kernel on two machines running Debian Sid and tried to install nvidia module. On both machines, the module compilation (using module-assistant) fails with some error messages (IIRC there was some error about rlim structure not being defined). Searchi

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H.S. wrote: I have installed the new 2.6.16 kernel on two machines running Debian Sid and tried to install nvidia module. On both machines, the module compilation (using module-assistant) fails with some error messages (IIRC there was some error about rlim structure not being defined). Searching

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
Tim Wood wrote: I have installed the new 2.6.16 kernel on two machines running Debian Sid and tried to install nvidia module. On both machines, the module compilation (using module-assistant) fails with some error messages (IIRC there was some error about rlim structure not being defined). Sear

RE: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-28 Thread Tim Wood
I have installed the new 2.6.16 kernel on two machines running Debian Sid and tried to install nvidia module. On both machines, the module compilation (using module-assistant) fails with some error messages (IIRC there was some error about rlim structure not being defined). Searching google has

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-28 Thread H.S.
RParr wrote: > I am not sure if we have the same problem. > > On my recently upgraded system the module-assistant fails with a message > "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1 seems to contain unconfigured kernel > source" > > None of the suggested commands seems to be able to fix this problem. > > W

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew Nelson
H.S. wrote: > I have installed the new 2.6.16 kernel on two machines running Debian > Sid and tried to install nvidia module. On both machines, the module > compilation (using module-assistant) fails with some error messages > (IIRC there was some error about rlim structure not being defined). > >

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-28 Thread RParr
H.S. wrote: I have installed the new 2.6.16 kernel on two machines running Debian Sid and tried to install nvidia module. On both machines, the module compilation (using module-assistant) fails with some error messages (IIRC there was some error about rlim structure not being defined). Searchin

Re: nvidia module load problems

2003-02-09 Thread Nic Strong
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 16:54, Alan Thompson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:26:29AM +, Nic Strong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Ever since compiling 2.4.20 kernel and the nvidia module/glx (4191) > > whenever I start x the nvidia module does not auto load i have to do an > > explicit 'insmod nvidi

Re: nvidia module load problems

2003-02-07 Thread Alan Thompson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:26:29AM +, Nic Strong wrote: > Hi, > > Ever since compiling 2.4.20 kernel and the nvidia module/glx (4191) > whenever I start x the nvidia module does not auto load i have to do an > explicit 'insmod nvidia' (i never had to do this in the past). > > /etc/modules has

Re: nvidia module load problems

2003-02-07 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
Perhaps a stupid question, since your system seemed to work before you used 2.4.20. I think it is X that loads the kernel when reading the XF86Config. What does your XF86config contain? Mine has Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation GeForce2 Go [NV11]" Driver

Re: nvidia module load problems

2003-02-07 Thread Steve Johnson
I'm running 2.4.20/woody/nv(4191) and mine works fine, the only difference I can see is that I didn't bother with any of the aliases. I just have this in /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be load