Cannot get NVIDIA to work..

chix4mat · Apprentice Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 190 Location: Canada

Hey all,

I've already made a thread about this, around last week. I have tried many more things since then and am still having no luck at all. I have tried recompiling the kernel, re-emerging the nvidia-glx/kernel, and trying to use the direct NVIDIA drivers from their site and haven't had luck at all.

I am hoping that someone can look at my setup below and tell me what's wrong exactly.

localhost rwilliams # uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Mon Feb 13 20:23:47 UTC 2006 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

localhost src # ls -l
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 20 13:49 linux -> linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r7
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Mar 16 12:15 linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Mar 20 14:34 linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r7

localhost modules # ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 16 12:31 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (includes a nvidia.ko under the video directory)
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 21 16:45 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 (does not have a video directory)
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 20 13:59 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 (includes a nvidia.ko under the video directory)

localhost video # modprobe nvidia
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.

Alright, sure enough I did upgrade my Kernel in hopes that would help, but it didn't. I tried different versions and re-emerged so many things, and I still can't modprobe nvidia. I had no problem like this with previous Gentoo installs, so I am unsure why I am running into them now.. nothing has changed inside the PC.

Any help would be most appreciated. If I left out any info, I can provide it.

Deepak420 · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject:

This is because you're running the 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 kernel, but don't have the nvidia drivers installed for it. Also you're /usr/src/linux should be pointing to the kernel that you are running so you may want to fix it ant try reinstalling the nvidia stuff - then try modprobe nvidia.

chix4mat · Apprentice Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 190 Location: Canada

Well, what's wierd is the fact that uname says I am using r5, when under the /usr/src/linux it only shows r1 and r7. I don't get it.

augury · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 722 Location: philadelphia

duh

point it somewhere else and try again or boot r7

tranquilcool · Veteran Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1246

rm /usr/src/linux
ln -s 'your kernel' /usr/src/linux

emerge nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel

go to /etc/modules.autoload/your-kernel and write nvidia this way the driver is loaded at boot

reboot
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augury · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 722 Location: philadelphia