nvidea drivers on 2.4.18 Debian (3.0 woody)

Hi folks,

is anyone out here who's using the nvidea XFree86 drivers with Debian 3.0 woody successfully?

I installed the modules from the .tar.gz files with "make install" as described in the README, but without much luck. If I run X manually with "xinit", I get an error message saying that the "nvidea" module could not be found. The bizarre part of the story is that the module *is* in fact in the proper place:

# ls /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o

and even the kernel module is successfully running, as we see here:

# ls /proc/driver/nvidia/
agp cards version

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
Model: GeForce3 Ti 200
IRQ: 5
Video BIOS: ??.??.??.??
Card Type: AGP

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0-2960 Tue May 14 07:41:42 PDT 2002
GCC version: gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge: SiS 735
Fast Writes: Not Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000000

# ls /dev/nvidia*
/dev/nvidia0 /dev/nvidia1 /dev/nvidia2 /dev/nvidia3 /dev/nvidiactl

/var/log/messages gives no hint at all what could
be wrong with it:

Aug 10 22:51:33 skywise kernel: nvidia: loading NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0-2960

No other error or warning messages here, all I get is a message from X saying that it doesn't find the nvidea driver....

Does anyone have a smart idea what I could be
doing wrong?

Thanks, Thomas

I just got it to work, although the problem I was having seems different from yours. See my reply to another post
Good luck!
\ben

Hy thor,
have got the same problem, could you solve yours.
If, then pls help. I'm trying to get into X for 3 days now.
Thanks in advance.