Nvidia problems

[Jörn Rink]

Am Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:07:44 -0600
hat andrew <fedora at tolboe.org> (andrew) folgendes geschrieben:

>
> 
> My xorg.conf is using nvidia for the device driver and I have Load
> "glx" and Load "dri" in my modules section (among other things).
> Here is the odd part and maybe this is the root of the problem but I
> had to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so to 
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so to just get X to start
> up. But still no glx support.


Hi,
first of all, have you compiled the NVidia driver? and which driver?

Here i compiled the 8178 driver. I have to compile it, that means,
download the driver, change the file to 777 and execute it.

The driver itself compiles and installs, and as i remember correctly,
it changes the xorg.conf.

After compiling it, there must be a nvidia.ko module
under /lib/modules/yourkernel/extra/nvidia
and an entry in /etc/modprobe.conf.

The module has to be loaded, you can check this with lsmod | grep -i
nvidia.


Your xorg.conf file must have these entries:

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

AND NO DRI ENTRY !!!

and this entry:
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT]"
EndSection

The driver has to be nvidia, not nv

Remember, the nvidia driver only compiles in runlevel 3, no X should
run.

Good Luck
 Jörn Rink

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