Hello Guys!

Everything was beaty over Earth, till that day, when I'd decided to update my KDE 3.1 to KDE 3.2 and after my kernel 2.4 (slack 9.1 pack) to 2.4.26.

After the succesfull compilations and installations (using pkgupgrade) my nvidia drive stopped working!

So, as I used to think, let's run nvidia drivers installation again.
Poor man: the installation is succesfull, and even the splash screen (nvidia logo) pops up when I start X,

BUT without any 3d acceleration!!!
(buggy Open GL screen savers)

So I tried again and again, but it's always the same old thing: splash screen without 3d accel.!

My video card is: RIVA

a riva? did you compile rivafb in your kernel? the nvidia drivers conflict with that, so you should remove it.

Ok, I forgot to say that before the upgrades my Riva was working fine!
(but now I searching google 4 rivafb)

Is rivafb an alternative for nvidia drivers?
Are u talking about Directfb?
Is Directfb an alternative for nvidia drivers?

im not talking about directfb. rivafb is a kernel module that can be compiled in. are you using it? the nvidia drivers dont like it, so disable one of the 2.

No, I'm not.
Just like I said, the video accel. was working fine before the upgrades.

After the upgrades, besides video accel., the modem and sound had stopped working too, but theese two I could fix y myself.

i'm having a similar problem... i saw the kernel for slackware 9.1 was updated a couple days ago to 2.4.26, so i downloaded it and upgraded it (upgradepkg)... then i went to run the nvidia-installer again in "force update" mode (which has worked well for me with all previous kernels) but it doesn't work now... i don't have the exact error message but it was something about the kernel version... so now i'm stuck using "nv" instead of "nvidia" in my /etc/X11/XF86Config till i figure this out...

will i need to wait for an updated nvidia driver or is there a way to get slackware's kernel 2.4.26 package working properly with the current nvidia driver version???

nvidia tnt2 m64 (32mb) on slackware 9.1

okay i found what my problem was, perhaps it's also what's happening to you...

i had upgraded only the kernel, modules, and headers to 2.4.26... my kernel source was still 2.4.24, so i upgraded it, and the nvidia-installer worked like a charm once again...

=)

No, I had already upgraded kernel source too.

Now I'm naked!
As root, the nvidia driver doesn't work and X can't start.
So I have to use the nv driver, but now aplications like Xine crash
and I don't have 3d acell.
Help!

what happens when you try running the nvidia thinggy in "force update" mode???

nvidia-installer -f


also, you might wanna post your /etc/X11/XF86Config here so we could have a look at it...

I don't know. Lets try!

BUT I'll do it only on saturday, when I got home again.
When I can I'll tell u what happens.
Sorry 4 making u wait....

thank you!

well, i looked in the nvidia driver readme last night, and found the problem, but its the bad kind of solution. im afraid that the riva series isnt supported by the nvidia driver. the driver only supports tnt/tnt2 and higher. so i guess youre stuck w/ dri . sorry.

No: u forgot that before the upgrade I had 3d accel - the driver was working fine.

And yet, my video card is a Riva TNT 2.

thank u!

Check to see if the agpgart module is loaded before the nvidia module.

I'll, but the answers will be given only on saturday.
Sorry 4 make u waiting...
By now, thank u!