Is anybody having problems with the latest kernel release and the Nvidia closed drivers ?
Ever since using Online update to upgrade to kernel 2.6.5-7.145 X refuses to start with either Nvidia driver versions 6111 or the current 6629.
I have rerun the installer to recompile the drivers after the kernel upgrade, that bit completes with no errors but then I get the error that it's unable to load the Nvidia kernel module when starting X
Wayne,
It might be that you can alleviate your problem by simply replacing "nv" with "nvidia" in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
A friend of mine had a related problem (see quote below):
"I did fix the initial problem: edit /etc/X11/XF86Config, replace "nv" with "nvidia" - yast puts in wrong driver. This worked, 3D included, but at 1024x768 max. Got monitor settings back from 8.2 config and put them in and all was well....
...until I used YOU again to collect all suggested security patches. It won't boot at all now - in normal startup it hangs just before the X server should start, in failsafe mode it hangs just after fsck runs (if needed). There was a kernel patch in the list so I would suspect this went wrong. I'm not sure if the message you relay has the first problem, the second or different again."
Cheers
Dave
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:50, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Is anybody having problems with the latest kernel release and the Nvidia closed drivers ?
Ever since using Online update to upgrade to kernel 2.6.5-7.145 X refuses to start with either Nvidia driver versions 6111 or the current 6629.
I have rerun the installer to recompile the drivers after the kernel upgrade, that bit completes with no errors but then I get the error that it's unable to load the Nvidia kernel module when starting X
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On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:27 am, David Studholme wrote:
Wayne,
It might be that you can alleviate your problem by simply replacing "nv" with "nvidia" in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
Many thanks but i have resolved it now (sort of)
I had actually fallen back to "nv" when the "nvidia" driver was failing to load, usually when replacing the kernel I simply do the following
cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig make prepare-all sh NVIDIA-linux-x86_64-1.0-blah-pkg2.run -q --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
because I have always been using the nvidia closed driver I never need to change anything in the X configuration.
This method has always worked in the past for me,
however for some strange reason doing the above followed by sax2 -m 0=nvidia resolved my issue. I don't understand why as XF86config already had the "nvidia" bit set.
Even now however those steps only work with 6111, any of the later drivers get stuck at the white nvidia splash as X starts or result in a very corrupted KDE (window borders not getting drawn, artifacts when moving windows and the Nvidia splash logo appearing in place of my desktop).
Now of course 'normally' on SuSE you would simply add the NVidia drivers from the SuSE packages provided by YoU, however I had a bad release a while back and had to revert to doing it the manual way to obtain a different version of the driver to the broken ones SuSE were providing at the time.
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Wayne Stallwood