nVidia driver install problem

[HumanPixel]

Hi, I just emerged the 7676 drivers from portage and I'm trying to get them to work.

The emerge was successfull, then I did an opengl-update nvidia - sucess.

I tried to load up gdm, and xserver gives me the error module nvidia doesn't exist.

I tried modprobe nvidia, it also says the module doesn't exist.

Am I missing a step? It used to be as simple as that...

[radoslawc]

Hi
first of all check if you have symlink to your linux sources like linux -> linux-2.6.13 or something, if you recently recompiled kernel check if you didn't enable - kernel hacking - Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb
then reemerge nvidia-kernel watch messages for errors if none check if there is /lib/modules/kernel-version/video/nvidia.ko
modprobe nvidia and check your xorg.conf for Driver "nvidia"
good luck!
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[HumanPixel]

it was exactly that, my symlink was pointing at the wrong kernel source. Crap, should've saw that. Thanks for the heads-up!