Switched from ATI to NVidia

BrianK · 06-04-2004, 06:37 PM

I was having some trouble with an ATI card, so I replaced it with an NVidia card. I uninstalled the ATI drivers with "rpm -e flgrx", verified that X no longer worked, switched the cards, installed the nvidia drivers, corrected my XF86Config-4 with the correct config, and now when I try to startx, I get messages like the following:

Symbol foo referenced from module /usr/X11R6/.../nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!

I'm stumped. Where do I go from here?

TheOneAndOnlySM · 06-04-2004, 07:47 PM

do modprobe nvidia, and see if the driver loads

if it does, try startx again

if the driver does not load, it was miscompiled/misinstalled

what driver version are you using? since it has a .o ending, i'm assuming kernel 2.4.x, and i recommend you use the 4496 drivers, not the latest 5336

also, check dmesg output

*edit: just noticed; you are trying to load nvidia_drv; all you need is "nvidia"

BrianK · 06-04-2004, 10:14 PM

Thanks for the reply... turns out the problem we were experiencing was not related to the graphics card (it continued after we switched the cards before we got X running) so we put the ATI back in.