Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:18:59AM -0500, Dave W wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 03:56, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > NVDriver is the linux kernel module. nvidia is the X display driver. > > > I might be wrong (sure wouldn't be the first time) but I believe that > starting with 4191, the module is ca

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia [solved]

2003-01-19 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op zo 19-01-2003, om 17:33 schreef Sridhar M.A.: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:56:18AM -0500, Ian D. Stewart wrote: >> On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver. I think the problem >> > is that you are loading a

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia [solved]

2003-01-19 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:56:18AM -0500, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver. I think the problem > > is that you are loading a module called NVdriver and you have > > nvidia listed as

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread Dave W
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 03:56, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > NVDriver is the linux kernel module. nvidia is the X display driver. > I might be wrong (sure wouldn't be the first time) but I believe that starting with 4191, the module is called nvidia. Prior to 4191 the module was called NVdriver. I ha

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread Cam Ellison
* Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just got a new motherboard and cpu: asus a7n266-vm with amd xp 1800. I > currently having about 128MiB of DDRAM. In the bios I have set the agp > ram to 32MiB. The machine is currently running sarge. > > I have the same board, and ran into problems wit

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver. I think the problem is that > you are loading a module called NVdriver and you have nvidia listed as the > driver in the X config file. Maybe try changing the Driver in X to > NVdriver to s

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > When I modprobe NVdriver, I get the following message: > > Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will > taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA > See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about > ta

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 09:06:24PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > When I modprobe NVdriver, I get the following message: > > Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will > taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA > See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote: > > I never had a problem with my TNT but I'll make a guess. > do you have the nvidia devices in the /dev/ directory?? > on my system I get > $ ls /dev/nvidia* > nvidia0nvidia2nvidia4nvidia6nvidiactl

RE: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Omnecide
Yea if you go to nvidias page and look under the install guide it tells you to take those out - Original Message - From: "Adam Kao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:07 PM Subject: Re: Can&#

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Adam Kao
I don't know if this is relevant, but when I installed X on my system I had to remove the "UseFBDev" option from the "Device" section. My system is much older and the video card is an old nVidia card that uses the "nv" driver but it's something to try and can't hurt. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-18 Thread Alaa The Great
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:06:24 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone help me to get X running on this machine? I never had a problem with my TNT but I'll make a guess. do you have the nvidia devices in the /dev/ directory?? on my system I get $ ls /dev/nvidia* nvidia0n