NVIDIA Again

[Mike Noble]

Kevin Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 16:49 -0500, Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> 
>>    Ok, has anyone installed the latest 6629 driver, rebooted, and had
>>eveything come up fine? I'm curious if this is a Core 3 issue, a kernel
>>issue, or a 'just me' issue. I'm thinking of moving back to the 6111
>>driver but I can't install that without the kernel sources correct? I
>>tried modprobing 'nvidia' but that doesnt change the driver I'm using,
>>and I still don't have accelerated 3D. Anyone know what's going on here?
>>I'm real impressed with core3 so far but if I can't have ant apotlight
>>screensaver what good is it :-P?
>>Jesse Jarzynka
>>Cyber Source
>>http://www.thecybersource.com
>>
> 
> 
> Which card do you have?  The 6629 driver does not work on Riva TNT2
> cards, but works fine (for me at least) on a GF4 440MX and GF 5200.
> Driver 6111 (patched) works fine for all 3 cards listed above.  And
> neither driver requires the kernel source to be present.  You _will_
> need to read the Release Notes (search for nvidia and udev) to get
> everything working smoothly.
> 
> What is the output of: lsmod|grep nvidia ?  You should see something
> like:
> nvidia               3473436  22
> 
> If so, you probably forgot to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to specify the
> binary nvidia driver.
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin Freeman
> 

I would really like to know how you did this.  I have GF4 440MX and
installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.  Modified the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.  When I reboot, it gives a message about
reconfigure kernel and hangs.
Any help would be great, I have never had a problem with an nvidia
driver before.  But then that was on a different Linux.

Mike

Here is my xorg.conf file:

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
         Identifier     "Default Layout"
         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
         FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
         Load  "dbe"
         Load  "extmod"
         Load  "fbdevhw"
         Load  "glx"
         Load  "record"
         Load  "freetype"
         Load  "type1"
#       Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
         Driver      "kbd"
         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Mouse0"
         Driver      "mouse"
         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier   "Monitor0"
         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
         ModelName    "VE700"
         DisplaySize  340        270
         HorizSync    30.0 - 80.0
         VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
         Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Videocard0"
#       Driver      "nv"
         Driver      "nvidia"
         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
         BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
         Identifier "Screen0"
         Device     "Videocard0"
         Monitor    "Monitor0"
         DefaultDepth     24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Viewport   0 0
                 Depth     16
                 Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Viewport   0 0
                 Depth     24
                 Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
"800x600""640x480"
         EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
         Group        0
         Mode         0666
EndSection