nvidia experts

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:59 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 ).
>>
>>
>
>
> More detail please.
> I /think/ I installed the driver (received a message that it was already
> installed when I installed it from runlevel 3).
> Is nvidia-xconfig a script?  Is it something from SAX2?

I'm not sure why this matters.  nvidia-xconfig has no relationship to
the abomination known as SAX2.  It ships with the official nvidia
driver package.  Did you run it as I requested?
$ file /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig
/usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
2.0.0, stripped


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