I'm about to give up

[Mlman]

This new loader is especially difficult for Linux newbies to get running properly. I got it to compile and load, reconfigured XF86Config and I get an error message that no screens are found. I checked through the forum and I didn't change the identifiers. I have attached both the XF86 error log and the XF86 config file. I know this is a configuration problem somewhere.

Geforce 3
version 4363
SuSE 8.2
CPU: AthlonXP 2100+
Motherboard: EPoX EP-8RD

[shassard]

right at the end of the log you have:

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(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
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Make sure that you get the right NVIDIA_kernel package and install it properly. As root, you should be able to do a "lsmod" and see the "nvidia" module loaded.

[lajiri]

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[Mlman]

XF86Config file is the first part of the attachement, and I am using the IA32 loader

[lajiri]

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[tsubasa]

Do u have a KT333 or KT 400 Mother board ?

[alien999999999]

don't think he has our problem.

he just installed it wrongly, so that the module isn't loaded at boot time.
an insmod nvidia before the init 5 could help alot.

[Mlman]

ok, apparently the module isn't loading. I tried re-running the installer, and setting up through SaX2 and I'm still getting the same error report. The help link from the readme to SuSE gives me a 404 error so I can't even check that to see if I'm installing this right, and searching the SuSE site is no help either. Does anyone have a copy of the SuSE linux install directions?

[shassard]

hopefully you've already downloaded and installed the appropriate rpm from here:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86

If that didn't, or you've compiled a custom kernel, you may need to try to install the below kernel module package:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4363/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363.tar.gz

I use custom kernels all of the time and the .tar.gz file is the only way to go ..