nvidia experts

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> We know you're out there!  I'm recovering an old system (SuSE 9.1) from the
> Mother of all Hard Disk Crashes.  I've pulled all of the nvidia drivers from
> the old drive to the new and correctly copied over XF86Config and use the
> "nvidia" name in the Device settings.  But I don't get the nVidia splash
> screen that used to come up at boot.  I seem to remember that I had to load
> the nvidia driver into the kernel, perhaps with modprobe or something.
> Can the experts please weigh in?

I guess I qualify as one of said experts.  Assuming that you
successfully installed the latest available NVIDIA driver package from
NVIDIA's website, and then ran 'nvidia-xconfig' (as root), then please
attach your X log ( /var/log/Xorg.0.log ).


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