NVidia Module Not Found
I'm using Debian Lenny, and my NVidia driver was working well. Today I booted it up, and got a bunch of colourful garbage on my screen. Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a console was also filled with undecipherable garbage.
I logged in remotely, and reinstalled the NVidia drivers. Now when I run X, I get: Quote:
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Try getting the package off of nVidia's site to reinstall your driver. Until then use either the vesa driver or nv driver. To manually add the "nvidia" driver find the following part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf*:
Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia GeForce 3" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection and modify the driver line. If it says "nvidia" and not "nv" or "vesa", then it's trying to use the nvidia driver and failing. Also, check to see if you have the right nVidia driver. You may need the legacy driver to get it to work right again. I know that that threw me off when I upgraded the driver on my desktop. *This section is copied straight out of my xorg.conf file, which may not match yours exactly. It may say Identifier "Generic Video Card" or "nVidia GeForce XXXX" since I have an old card. Also, your BusID may differ, especially on a newer system. |
I don't know if this is much help but here's what I did to fix a similar problem after an upgrade to "lenny".
My system was borked right after a re-boot, no screens found and when I tried to re-install the drivers "the debian way" it failed with some crap about module assistant not available ( uninstallable ) So faced with either running with the "nv" driver ( and thus no 3D) or a reinstall back to "etch" I decided to try something , I un-installed all of xorg, everything related to nvidia and then set my sources to "etch-stable" I reinstalled xserver-xorg (and all related packages) and then : apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common m-a prepare m-a auto-install nvidia apt-get install nvidia-glx in xorg.conf. I renamed the driver from nv back to nvidia and voila my desktop was back! |
Similar Problems
I have had similar problems in the past.
Check this post out http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=556930 and it has a simple little script there that may help you fix your problem. There is also a way to specify where the path is meant to be for the xorg drivers rather than the xserver drivers, but i have lost the little piece of paper so i use my script method now to fix it. DJ |
Well, the nv driver has quit on me also. Not only did it give me a corrupt / garbled picture, but the computer locked up after a few seconds. I didn't even have enough time to set up the networking so I could log in remotely.
So instead of fighting with it (could've edited xorg using Knoppix), I started a re-install. Hopefully all my nvidia problems will be wiped away. If I finish and still run into problems, I'll start trying your solutions. One last thing: is there supposed to be a Module section in xorg.conf? Or has that been obsoleted? Because mine was missing one, and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg didn't have a Module page. Thanks for all the help. |
Just ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg - does not offer me module check boxes either.
I use the driver from Nvidia site which offers an auto revision of xorg.conf after driver install. the only module listed is glx I notice there is still a "files" section on xorg.conf but no font paths are listed. I think xorg has changed a bit since I upgraded to lenny I use Nvidia GeForce 6800 with the Nvidia 100.14.11 driver. All working well here, except I get a little tearing when moving windows quickly. From my xorg-conf: Code:
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FYI
The current outdated version of the nvidia driver does not work with the new updated xserver in testing: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420177 I am saddened that this bug has not been stickied somewhere... :( Just sit back and wait for the new driver. Just a couple of more days hopefully: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing....age=nvidia-glx |
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1. Open terminal 2. #su Password: 3. # cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers 4. # gcc -shared -o nvidia_drv.so nvidia_drv.o Now install nvidia binary driver for debian and restart xserver. It works. |
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edit: Ok it seemed to work. I updated to the new x-server and did Code:
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DRI works b/c it's enabled by default with the nvidia driver. You do not need to explicitly specify it.
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so the fact that the nvidia driver isn't working is a problem with testing and not my incompetence when it comes to installing it?
when do you think it will get fixed? |
I used the installer off of nvidia's website and it worked like a charm. If anyone else is having this problem, I would suggest going that route.
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I'm on lenny/sid and the latest driver version from nvidia's site is working like a charm here as well (version 100.14.11). Just want to let you people know something: if you have previously installed the driver "the debian way" (installing the nvidia-glx package and stuff), you probably need to purge the nvidia-glx package because its scripts remain in the system and will automatically delete the nvidia driver upon reboot (at least this is the way it used behave on etch, don't know whether it has changed or not); here's the code:
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apt-get remove --purge nvidia-glx |
I tried installing this driver the debian way first (using Lenny/Sid since Etch went stable), so I tried to purge the nvidia-glx package first, like odiseo77 recommended. All I got was this error message:
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Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Then I tried to to install the NVIDIA driver (after I shut down X using Strg+Alt+Backspace) as suggested by the README on www.nvidia.com, resulting in an error concerning the kernel module (the driver wasn't able to compile one). Here is the end of my /var/log/nvidia-installer.log: Code:
from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as Any suggestions for me? |
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