X must not be running: How I do it is "killall gdm". When doing that I thought the X was stopped. But anyway I did a reboot (and the creationtime of the nvidia.ko module is the same as the time the compilation happened, so it's ok ... I guessed ).
1) I will try it with booting to lvl2 this evening.

Can you explain me how I can "run a driver"? And what do I need to watch? Xorg.0.log? messages? dmesg |tail -f?

Oh, I compiled as root (the nVidia setup won't you let it compile as non-root).

2) I will check if all the directories have at least world readable.

Sorry, I should have written driver-installer.

so cd to your download directory and run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run

The log file is in /var/log/nvidia-installer.log

Note that there is a newer driver:1.0-8762 available. Might have a fix for your problem.

I think that it is because something changed in X 6.9/7.0 that the NVIDIA drivers were using. The 8756 version worked for me, after installing it twice due to a warning the first time that libGL.so wasn't a symlink. I also had to recompile the kernel because my version of gcc changed.

Similar thing happened to me. On compile, it fails to compile the actual module "nvidia.ko" and then the module obviously isn't found when I try to load X. I don't have access to the log spew right now, but yours does say:

(WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)

I found all "ps -A | grep x" and "grep kdm" and killed all those, still no go for my compile. Definitely root... whatever the problem is, I bet you and I are experiencing the same compile issue!
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Well, it's not exactly the same. Before my upgrade yesterday night (Ubuntu 5.10) I couldn't get it compiling (or at least difficult to compile). Now (Ubuntu 6.06), everything is happy and shining (concerning compiling).

It creates the .ko module, it even copies it to the modules directory with all the other kernel modules. But when I change to 'nvidia' in my xorg.conf it gives the similar errors.

Now I am using 'nv' and it works (before my upgrade it didn't).

Later today after I made a release of my TradeAnalyzer (hidden advertisement ), I will go for runlevel 2 and try to recompile and relink and reinsert and stuff like 'davcefai' suggested.

Will keep you guys updated

BTW, my kernel is now 2.6.15


davcefai:
/etc/inittab has "id:2:initdefault:" ... So I am already running in lvl 2? So I changed it to 1 (it says 'single-user mode', and as I don't need network, I don't mind).

I will reboot and see what happens

*edit*
Actually what I did was easier then changing the inittab . I just started recovery mode... That's somewhere before initlevel 1. With absolutely very little programs running.

1) Now I first tried uninstalling everything, then installing the latest drivers. Reboot. No luck.
2) Reboot in recovery mode. uninstalling, installing 7856 (previous ones). Reboot. No luck either...

Reverted back to 'nv' for the moment .

Anyone who might have a guess why X can't find my module?

Ok people... I solved it... I don't know exactly what part solved it, but I am under X... With nvidia module.

For your (and mine probably ) reference:

Everything works like a charm now... It was not a problem of X, not a problem of NVIDIA... But as usual in this world a problem of people (namely: me) not understanding . The NVIDIA setup was always installing inside the wrong path.

Thanks for all your help!

I had that exact same problem in Fedora Core 6, with the nvidia-x11-drv-96xx-1.0.9631-1 drivers.

X was crashing every time I tried to run a glx program. glxinfo, glxgears, glx screensavers, etc...


The problem was that there were 2 copies of the libglx.so file, one at:
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so

and one at:
usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so

and X was trying to use the first one.


To fix this, I moved the original one to a backup, and linked to the one in the nvidia directory. Restarted X, and viola!, glx works!



to recap, as root (or using sudo)...

# cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
# mv libglx.so libglx.so.orig
# ln -s nvidia/libglx.so

restart X, and you're using the correct libglx.so.