NVidia module problem...

[presstone]

I have absolutely tried everything in the forum as well as search the internet to find MORE things to try. I keep getting this message:

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xC6000000
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

I have tried the RPMs, building the RPMs, using the tarballs, to even using people's third-party RPMs. I can't get anything to work. Any ideas? I will try anything you people can suggest. Attached is the FULL log if you want to take a look at it.

[jpeg625]

I have the same problem every time I reboot.
Basically the modules NVdriver isn't getting loaded on reboot.
You can load it by "modprobe NVdriver" as root.
I don't know how to make it load automatically.

[tuzok]

In my case XFree reporting same error as above but I have already NVdriver loaded. I don't understand what's wrong.
But before running X server ( from text mode ) lsmod reports something like this:
<pre>NVdriver (unused)</pre>

But after running X server ( it will end with error ) lsmod doesn't report <pre>(unused)</pre> flag anymore. So I suppose X server tried to use NVdriver module but without sucess.

Any ideas?

[presstone]

Originally posted by jpeg625
I have the same problem every time I reboot.
Basically the modules NVdriver isn't getting loaded on reboot.
You can load it by "modprobe NVdriver" as root.
I don't know how to make it load automatically.

Because I get this message:
modprobe: Can't locate module NVdriver

[presstone]

Originally posted by tuzok
In my case XFree reporting same error as above but I have already NVdriver loaded. I don't understand what's wrong.
But before running X server ( from text mode ) lsmod reports something like this:
<pre>NVdriver (unused)</pre>

But after running X server ( it will end with error ) lsmod doesn't report <pre>(unused)</pre> flag anymore. So I suppose X server tried to use NVdriver module but without sucess.

Any ideas?

I don't have a NVdriver in my list... :(

[doc-holliday]

Hi there,

There's a workaround for this problem. I had the same problem with my Debian 3.0 (Woody) Operating System. I think that problem happened because something in /etc/modules.conf is wrong.

The Workaround is really easy. Just edit /etc/modules and type NVdriver in it. You have to be root for that. With this workaround the module is always loaded when the system is booting.

Greetings

[presstone]

Here is the (unedited) contents of my modules.conf file:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 natsemi
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
alias char-major-195 NVdriver

I didn't add that NVdriver line. It was there already. Any other ideas?

[bwkaz]

If you're getting "module not found", then you either didn't successfully install the NVIDIA_kernel package, or you installed one that doesn't match your kernel.

The output of uname -r and the kernel version part of the NVIDIA_kernel package MUST match.