Driver 1.0-4363 Problem

[kindel]

I think nVidia did a great job in the new automatic driver installer.
Unfortunately, this driver isn't work with my new GeForce4 video card.

After installing the driver and changing XFree86-4 as indicated, I receive the following error message when trying start X server:

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

Even compiling the drivers I get the same error.

XFree86.0.log indicates that nvidia_drv.o module was succesfully loaded:

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(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.4363
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
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but connot be initialized and the it is unloaded:

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(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA 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
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Follow the details about my configuration:
Video Card: GeForce4 MX440SE ¨$MB DDR TV-out AGP VGA (PV-T17L-QTFB)
Driver Version: 1.0-4363
Distribution: RedHat 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-14)
Video Bios Revision: 4.17.00.63.42
Processor: Pentium4 1.7GHz
Motherboard model: ECS P4VMM2

As indicated, follows in attach my XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log files.
Any help would be very appreciated.

Marcus Kindel
kindel@uol.com.br

[alien999999999]

try insmod nvidia before starting x

[kindel]

Thanks,

Loading manually nvidia module (insmod nvidia) works fine.
So I have to figure out why the module isn't loaded automatically.

Best regards,

Marcus Kindel
kindel@uol.com.br

[slackr]

To get your nvidia kernel module to load when X starts you might have to add:

alias char-major-195 nvidia

to your /etc/modules.conf file.....

Try that....

[bwkaz]

Or, since RH8 uses devfs (... at least, I'm pretty sure it does...), add alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia to modules.conf. If in doubt, you should be able to add both of them, actually...