nvidia experts

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.

I'm afraid to ask.  What kind of ancient GPU do you have in that
system that you are using the oldest legacy driver in existence?



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