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I've tried everthing and nvidia driver just won't work
I'm at a loss. I've tried following directions for installing Nvidia drivers and either I'm a re-re or something's wrong. I'm using:
Asus P4P800-VM motherboard
Pentium 4 3GHz processor
1 GB RAM
Nvidia GE Force 2 Ultra video card (yes I know it's old, but it was laying around)
Planar PL1500M monitor
Suse 10.1
I tried following the directions from Nvidia (using YaST) and got some kind of dependency error. I then tried following the How-To from these forums and the installer basically said "NO I will not do this". I tried YaST again and everything seemed to work just fine, it even updated the kernel for me and told me to reboot. So I did as prompted and could no longer use the GUI. Instead I got this:
Quote:
[System specs] followed by
(++) Using config file: "/var/log/Xorg.8.log", Time: [etc]
dl open : /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/updates/extensions/libglx.so: undefined symbol _nv000066gl
(EE)Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/updates/extensions/libglx.so
(EE)Failed to load module glx (loader failed, 7)
(EE)NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE)NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.
(EE)NVIDIA(0): If you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE)NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.13-smp/weak-updates/nvidia.ko): No such device
(EE)NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE)NVIDIA(0): ***Aborting***
(EE)Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Please consult the X.Org Foundation support [bla, bla, bla, no real help]
Cannot connect to X server
...then a command prompt. After a few failed attempts at retrieving my desktop, I decided to use the Suse CDs to "update" my system by down-grading the kernel and removing the Nvidia driver. A painting teacher once told me "If you don't start the painting right, you'll never be able to fix it." (Why fix it when you can start again?) All I needed 3D support for was Neverwinter Nights, that was three days ago, I haven't slept and I don't even want to play anymore. I just want to make the video driver work now. I know the card is old but it worked before, so I know it will eventually work again. I patiently await any advice outside a link to techieMoe's How-To.
two things immediately come to mind:
1. did you update xorg.conf after installing the driver? If not, boot into failsafe, run sax2 and setup everything properly. Make sure box for 3D rendering is checked.
2. Which driver are you using? See if an older driver works e.g. a 7174 series.
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1. did you update xorg.conf after installing the driver? If not, boot into failsafe, run sax2 and setup everything properly. Make sure box for 3D rendering is checked.
Everything seemed fine in sax2 except that I wasn't able to check the 3D box. So then I tried:
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Originally Posted by AlexK
2. Which driver are you using? See if an older driver works e.g. a 7174 series.
While using the nvidia installer I got an error:
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Error: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
What does that mean? I've only been using Linux for a week, so I don't understand much yet (Windows and OSX spoiled me ). My computer makes me feel dumb sometimes!
Hmm. Well a Geforce 2 probably isn't enough to run Neverwinter Nights anyway, so I wouldn't feel too bad. At what stage of the install do you see the "unable to build" message? Is while the install script is trying to compile it? Also, what version are you installing?
That error could be caused by a wide variety of reasons, check the following are installed:
kernel-sources
gcc
make
and make sure you are running commands as root.
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x11-video-nvidia version 1.0.8762-1
nvidia-gfx-kmp-smp version 1.0.8762_2.6.16.21_0.8
3D acceleration box is now checked in sax2 but configuration test failed. So now I'm pretty sure I'm screwing something up here, but can't figure out for the life of me what it is I'm doing wrong. If there were a tearing out my hair smiley I'd use it!
Do you have a dual-core CPU? If not, you shouldn't be using the SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processor) version of this driver. Also, you should probably try a version older than 1.0.8762 for your Geforce 2.
I don't have a dual core. I wondered why I would need multiprocessor support (that's for another thread, though). I'm going to try using the default kernel when I have some time off this weekend (I expect something will go wrong). As much as I've been working, I could probably afford a new video card (again, another thread) and resolve this problem the American way.
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