nvidia experts

[Tony Alfrey]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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. 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 ).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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? Â 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?

Yes I did, and I got squat.  That is why my question is reasonable.
There is
/usr/bin/nvidia-installer
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
/usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall

The driver I downloaded, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.14-pkg1.run  (which 
requires a terminal, not to be run from X) said that I need to then go 
into Sax2 to install nvidia.  I'm following the instructions that the 
app gives me.  That is why the question about Sax2.

And Sax2 complained that it could not find 
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o

which happens to be on the /old/ failed drive.

However, after much thrashing around, the nvidia splash screen now 
appears on boot, so that is what I /think/ I need.  The objective of all 
of this is to install OpenGL in a CAD program that requires nvidia. 
I've not yet tried to do that, but I think I'm closer.

Thanks


> $ 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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