nvidia experts

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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).

Nothing in the official driver package makes any changes to the kernel
on the system.  All it does is build an nvidia kernel module, and then
install the userspace driver components.  Regardless, I don't have any
interest in investigating any problems unless you install the latest
driver version from scratch.  Copying bits & pieces from other systems
is 100% unsupported, and unless you know what you're doing will likely
result in a completely broken mess.

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