Yet Another No Screen Found Problem with NVidia (Suse 9.2 default kernel)
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[FIXED] Yet Another No Screen Found Problem with NVidia (Suse 9.2 default kernel)
I know, this has already been asked many times. But I've been googling today since 9am and none of the solutions I found worked.
So I installed Suse 9.2 today on my laptop, which has been successfully running suse 9.0 for 6 months. When I installed nvidia driver and edited xorg.conf as appropriate, X refused to start with this error message:
Failed to initialize NVIDIA Kernel Module.
Screens found, but none have usable configuration.
Fatal error:
no screens found
My Xorg.conf that doesn´t work:
# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2004-12-23T16:19:43+0100.
#
# Version: 4.8
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2002
#
# Automatically generated by [SaX2] (4.8)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Installation went smooth?? Did you had any problems while installing drivers??
It seems like the nvidia module is not loaded/created. Remember you need the kernel source in order to compile the nvidia driver module
The installation said it couldn't find any precompiled kernel module for my kernel, then it said if I had rivafb module loaded the nvidia module wouldn't work (and rmmod rivafb reports that rivafb isn't loaded) then it continued normally.
I do have kernel sources installed; if I didn't have, the installer should be unable to build the module.
Hi,
I've fixed it now. I'm not sure why, but it works now.
Here's the fix:
First I've installed 6629 patched drivers, then disabled rivafb support in kernel,
compiled modules with make modules (NOT make modules_install), but I interrupted make before it compiled everything.
Then I installed 6629 unpatched drivers, started Sax2 with sax2 -m 0=nvidia. Sax couldn't start because of the problem described above.
Then I've installed 6629 patched drivers again on top of old ones. Started X. This time it told me it couldn't open /dev/nvidiactl file. I waited 10-15 seconds, then started X again. And it worked like a charm!
To moderators:
Yes, I know, it's stupid to pop my own thread with the solution after such a short period of time. I apologise about that.
Originally posted by leadazide To moderators:
Yes, I know, it's stupid to pop my own thread with the solution after such a short period of time. I apologise about that.
It is right that you put the solution you found out. Many people only say "I found a solution, now it works" and they don't tell how they managed to get it to work, this is bad, cause it may be other people with the same problem, and your solution may be good for them as well.
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[FIXED] Yet Another No Screen Found Problem with NVidia (Suse 9.2 default kernel)
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