Nvidia Driver -- Problems

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Hi,
	please keep always the mailing list in CC. Perhaps other people
will see the same error and will know how to handle it.

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, billg wrote:

>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:30:11 +0200 (CEST), "Fabio Massimo Di Nitto"
> <fabbione at fabbione.net> said:
> >
> > We already ship the nvidia drivers and there is no need to compile
> > them. You can install linux-restriced-modules adn nvidia-glx, as usual
> > you will
>
> Thanks, Fabio.  I've installed the nvidia driver, et al. However, I get
> the proverbial "No Screens Found" error. The log shows the module loads
> correctly, but then adds this:
>
> "(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"
>
> This also happens when I install dbus/hal on debian-unstable. Without
> dbus and hal, the nvidia driver is fine. With them, it isn't. I've never
> found a fix.
>

I am running them here with no problems.

> Also, fwiw, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" did not write a new
> XF86Config-4.

Did you edit your configuration manually? If so dpkg-reconfigure will have
no effect to preserve your local modification.

> I did the md5sum thing, just in case, but still no go.

Which md5sum thing? If you want dpkg-reconfigure to handle your config
again you need to do:

md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86XF86Config-4.md5sum

and then run again dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Also, if X doesn't start please attach at least /var/log/XFree86.0.log
and your configuration file.

Fabio

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