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From: Catalin Grigoroscuta <c.grigoroscuta@×××××××××.ro>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:14:49
Message-Id: 436F7B8D.9040503@moodmedia.ro
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia by Philip Webb
1 Had same problem today with 2.6.13-r5.
2 Turned out that nvidia module was not loaded :) - so a simple modprobe
3 nvidia fixed the problem.
4
5 Philip Webb wrote:
6
7 >051107 Petteri R?ty wrote:
8 >
9 >
10 >>Philip Webb wrote:
11 >>
12 >>
13 >>>Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ?
14 >>>I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 :
15 >>>"can't initialise Nvidia module, no qualified screen available"
16 >>>(or words to that effect). I have recompiled Nvidia etc.
17 >>>
18 >>>
19 >>No problems here with the latest ~x86 stuff. I have a Geforce 4 Ti-4600.
20 >>
21 >>
22 >
23 >In case anyone has advice, the lines I get are:
24 >
25 > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialise NVIDIA kernel module!
26 > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** aborting ***
27 > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration
28 >
29 >The cause may be a kernel configuration line which I changed
30 >without realising its whole effect. I'm using Nvidia version 6629 .
31 >
32 >Thanks to everyone who has replied: I will investigate further myself.
33 >
34 >
35 >
36
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>