nVidia driver claims I have no nVidia card
I have several computers here running SuSE 10.1, but only this one causes trouble. I cannot get the nvidia.ko-module to load. I provide output of several commands next. I have MSI NX7300GT PCI Express.
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# uname -r Code:
# rpm -qa|grep nvidia Code:
# lspci Code:
# cat /proc/interrupts Code:
# modprobe nvidia Code:
# dmesg|tail Code:
# lsmod|grep riva Code:
# lsmod|grep nv I am forced to use the slow VESA-driver currently... :( |
Try 'hwinfo --gfxcard'. What does it tell you about the graphics card?
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# hwinfo --gfxcard |
run this command
# dmesg | grep NVIDIA If you see a message saying about nvidiafb loading, no doubt you need to recompile your kernel and exclude nvidiafb from the config. There are two common drivers for nvidia cards. One is for the framebuffer type and one is for the agp type. Nvidiafb included in the kernel owns the framebuffer type and nvidia from nvidia's site controls the agp type. The two can never run together. I've also asked for more info about the two being able run together but found no answer. Take a look at this thread if you want more info: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=466176 |
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I wonder if this issue could be caused by some strange motherboard-issue? |
why don't you try the lastest nVidia driver? (don't ask me if there is a RPM)
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Well, problem solved, kinda.
I switched to Mandriva 2007 and it works flawlessly. The card is detected perfectly and XGL is running very nicely. |
strange. I have NVIDIA drivers working perfectly on SuSE 10.1 but I did not install via RPM. I installed via the binary file from nvidia.com for Linux.
Following the official tutorial, all is right! http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17174.html |
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I also noted that X.org- and Mesa-updates always broke my configuration and re-installing the nVidia-drivers never fixed it anymore - without a full system re-install. The issue was the same white screen-thing. I needed to lock specific packages from Smart, so that it did not upgrade them. This included the whole X.org and several other packages. The advantage of using the RPM-packaged version of the driver is obvious: RPM won't let updates to overwrite the nVidia's files automatically, as they belong to another package. The kernel-update + RPM-version has always worked... until now on this particular computer. Using the official installer caused the white screen-issue also on this computer. nVidia's drivers seem to be a huge issue on SuSE 10.1. Yes, they work for most computers, but when they don't, it requires hours of battle. I never had this issue on other distros. |
Did you try "tiny-nvidia-installer -update" as root....
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Well, luckily Mandriva 2007 has a newer nVidia-driver as a RPM-packet. :) |
Yes, but it will install he nvidia driver also......;)
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