Ok, I've been trying to search and find a fix to my problem, but no luck. I just upgraded to the 2.6.1 kernel and also moved my Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti200 from my Windows computer to my Linux computer (I'm trying to get rid of my Windows computer). When I run X with driver=vesa, everything works fine. When I change to driver=nvidia, i get a blue screen telling me that X can't be started (I'm running gdm, not startx) and when I view the output it says that the it can't load the module nvidia: module does not exist. lsmod shows that the module is already loaded, but when I rmmod nvidia, insmod nvidia doens't work...it says can't read nvidia: no such file or directory (but modprobe nvidia will load it). So I tried changing to the driver=nv to see if that worked. When I run gdm then, my monitor tells me I'm not getting a signal, but the computer beeps for the gdm login screen. It accepts input, because I did Ctrl+Alt+F1...The monitor still said it had no input, but i typed reboot and my command went through and it rebooted.

I'm getting frustrated, any help will be appreciated. Oh, if it makes a difference...I did the 4496 drivers and the patch from minion.de

Thanks,
Jeff

you shouodl search for this topic b4 you posted, casue i know that when i upgraded to 2.6.1 i had nvidia troubles as well. but here's our answer straight from the other post...

http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/linux-2.6/

go to that website, and you can download the installers for the 2.6 version of the kernel, and its the same thing as running the nvidia scripts on the 2.4 kernel, i use it all the time when i recompile the kernel....hope this answered your question.

geoff

Getting warmer...I downloaded and ran the file from that site, and now with device=nvidia it finds it, but says that it failed to initialize...and with device=nv, it still says no monitor input, but when I Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go to console, it lets me see the screen (Alt+F7 to go back to X makes it say no input again)

Jeff

Ha ha! I'm an idiot

It's amazing what happens when you read your bootup messages...the driver wasn't getting an IRQ because I had to change a bios setting (I had Assign IRQ to VGA set to disabled). Now that I fixed that it works (nv doesn't work, but nvidia does...which is the one I care about).

Jeff

glad to hear you got it working!