MDK 9.1 Having Trouble with X (Installing Over Previous Driver)

[--Rikki--]

I'm having trouble with the new drivers.

I current have the 4191 drivers install from RPM's and this works perfectly with GLX and everything.

I'm running a Dual Head display (s3 PCI card and GeForce3 AGP)

this works perfectly with the current drivers.

I experience problems with the new (4349) drivers. When installing either over the top of the old ones or after removing the old ones. X just gives me a blank screen and i cannot even change Virtual Consoles. Sometimes depending different GLX settings in XF86Config i get an X display just on the s3 card.

Am i doing something wrong? According to XFree86.0.log

the nvidia and GLX modules are not loading

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***

(EE) [GLX]: Failed to add GLX extension (NVIDIA XFree86 driver not found)

How do i make them load again?? if i uninstall the driver and put the old ones back in everything is fine again.

how do i get it to recognise these drivers??

I am almost positive XF86Config-4 is correct.

but have attached XFree86.0.log

The card is a GeForce 3 ti200 128Mb
The card Bios is 03.20.00.27.00
Distro Mandrake 9.1
AMD XP 1800+
The Mobo is a Soltek cannot find the model number at present

Thanx for any Help
Rikki

[Andy Mecham]

The "Failed to initialize" message is the catchall error message.

Are you sure you have the right kernel module loaded? What does /proc/driver/nvidia/versions say?

--andy

[--Rikki--]

#cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4349 Thu Mar 27 19:00:02 PST 2003
GCC version: gcc version 3.2

What do i have to do to install the correct kernel modules?? uname -r gives me 2.4.21-0.13mdk

nvidia-installer -k="2.4.21-0.13mdk" just gives me an error message saying it cna't find the package.

i also tried installing 4349 by tar.gz file but this did not work either. i cannot get the old drivers to work again now tho. how do i uninstall the drivers after installing from tar.gz ???

[--Rikki--]

I have also noticed that the bulk of problems are occuring when i am telling it to Load GLX

if i tell it not to load GLX then the nvidia module loads complains that it can't find GLX and then unloads and closes X but when GLX is set in Load Modules X just gives me a blinking cursor

[Andy Mecham]

Sorry, I should have been clearer - I was worried that you were using an older kernel module with newer GL libraries.

Does it work if you don't load the vesa driver?

--andy

[--Rikki--]

I havent tried it without the vesa driver. if this is the case i'll have to get a better 2nd graphics card. i have been meaning to for a while anyway.

I'll give it ago and let you kno the results.