Hi;
I started a major project about a mounth ago: build a new Linux box. I've got an AMD64x2 4400 runing on an ASUS M/B w/ Sata HD and DVD 1Gig memory and a nvidia 6600LE vidio card. I'm runing the unstable 2.6.15 amd64 smp kernel
I can't get X (xorg) to start up. I've scoured many archives I have patched the linux-kernel to get it to see the dvd and I have patched and compiled the nvidia modules driver modules fixing a ioclt registration problem (thanks to all those who have documented there trials and endevours) but I still get a "failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist)" message from X and
if I modprobe the the nvidia module I get

NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was notcalled for i device(s)
NVRM: This can occur when a driver susch as rivafb or rivatv was
NVRM: loaded as obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s).
NVRM: Try unloading the rivfb(and/or the rivtv) kernel module
NVRM: (or reconfiguring your kernel without rivfb support), then
NVRM: try loading the NVIDIA kernel module again.
NVRM: no NVIDIA graphics adapter probed!
FATAL error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.15 ......): no such device

Now, I don't have rivfb or rivtv configued in the kernel.
FYI Discover doesn't seem to see my video card either but I'm not sure
if it can see anytheing on a PCI-E bus.

Has any one had sucess traveling down these paths or can you point me to another module patch ?

thanks

What is the output of
lspci -v

sorry to be away so long

here's the lspci output:

0001:00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [44] #08 [01e0]
Capabilities: [e0] #08 [a801]

0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0

0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 5
I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=64]
I/O ports at 1c40 [size=64]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fe02a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at feb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [44] #0a [2098]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
Memory at fe02c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0970 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4]
I/O ports at d400 [size=16]
Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 09e0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0be0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0960 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0b60 [size=4]
I/O ports at e800 [size=16]
Memory at fe02e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: fdf00000-fdffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff

0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=8]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff
Memory behind bridge: fda00000-fdafffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fd900000-00000000fd900000
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [58] #08 [a800]
Capabilities: [80] #10 [0141]

0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00007000-00007fff
Memory behind bridge: fdc00000-fdcfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fdb00000-00000000fdb00000
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [58] #08 [a800]
Capabilities: [80] #10 [0141]

0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff
Memory behind bridge: fd800000-fd8fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fdd00000-00000000fdd00000
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [58] #08 [a800]
Capabilities: [80] #10 [0141]

0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: f4000000-fbffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d8000000-00000000dff00000
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [58] #08 [a800]
Capabilities: [80] #10 [0141]

0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: [80] #08 [2101]

0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel

0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0142 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp.: Unknown device c363
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at f8000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [78] #10 [0001]

0000:05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c1b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at fdff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2