nvidia experts

[Tony Alfrey]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> We know you're out there! Â I'm recovering an old system (SuSE 9.1) from the
>> Mother of all Hard Disk Crashes. Â 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. Â But I don't get the nVidia splash
>> screen that used to come up at boot. Â 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 ).
> 

Ah!  I didn't.  I will.  Thanks!

I /did/ download the package which seems to be a script that patches the 
stock kernel.  If this is true, and if I still have the kernel from the 
old disk, I wonder if it is possible to simply use that old kernel? (I 
suppose it wouldn't be fatal to try and just revert to the original 
kernel if there was a problem).


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