nvidia experts

[Tony Alfrey]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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. Â 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! Â I didn't. Â I will. Â Thanks!
>>
>> I /did/ download the package which seems to be a script that patches the
>> stock kernel. Â 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.
> 


Yes, this is probably correct.  I've done what you describe years before 
and I'm sure that it will work again.  I was just curious if there was 
something already on the old drive that I could pull off (somewhere in 
the script it says something about "patch" the kernel).  But I will just 
let the script do the work.

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