Another extremely urgent nVidia driver testing request

[Carl Karsten]

> On Monday 04 April 2005 14:52, Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
>>> Frederik Dannemare wrote:
>>
>>>> > Well, first of all, with some option enabled (forget what it's
>>>> > called - NvLogo?) in /etc/X11/xorg.conf you don't see the logo.
>>>> > Another thing to check in xorg.xonf is whether it has Driver "nv"
>>>> > or Driver "nvidia" (latter is the proprietary driver).
>>
>>>
>>> Ok, so I need to fix xorg.conf?
>>>
>>> Section "Device"
>>>          Identifier      "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go]"
>>>          # Driver                "nv"
>>>          Driver          "nvidia"
>>>          BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
>>> EndSection
> 
> 
> Looks ok. You use the nvidia module as you should. No need to edit.

I made that change.

> 
> 
>>> Should this have been done for me?  (I don't mind - O don't even
>>> really care, just trying to help test.)
> 
> 
> It's already been done (the change from nv to nvidia).
> 

see above ;)

> 
>>>
>>
>>>>> >>Is there a shell command that will report if I am using the binary
>>>>> >>drivers?
>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>
>>>
>>> It is there.  ;)   What am I looking for?
> 
> 
> If it cannot load or initialize the nvidia module, I think it says 
> something akin to "Could not initialize/load nvidia module".
> 

(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)


Also, should this be reported:

(WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
         Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" does not exist.
         Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in 
"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d
/dirs/CID".
         Entry deleted from font path.
         (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID").
(**) FontPath set to 
"unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100d
pi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/li
b/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/d
irs/TrueType"


> 
>>>
>>
>>>> > Also, check if the nvidia module is loaded: lsmod|grep nvidia
>>
>>>
>>> root at tsp2b:~ # lsmod|grep nvidia
>>> (nothing)
> 
> 
> OK, do "modprobe nvidia" + "echo nvidia >>/etc/modules" (the latter will 
> make sure the nvidia module is automatically loaded upon reboots). This 
> should be all you need to do, since your xorg.conf looks ok.

I see this has been done:

root at tsp2b:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc
alias char-major-195* nvidia


And yet nvidia module isn't being loaded.  Is this a problem?

Carl kK