[mythtv-users] Can't get nividia-graphics 169.12 to load

[Sarah Hayes]

Kevin Plew wrote:
> Here is the output from
>
> $cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
>
> log]# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
>   
Interesting. 

Keeping it simple go in to /lib and do 'find | grep nvidia' (it'll spit 
out everything), just to make sure it exists.  Next step would be dmesg 
and /var/log/messages also greping for 'nvidia' to see what, if anything 
happened during boot/runtime.

I'm not sure which distro your using, but if it's Fedora try John's 
trick above (about two versions being installed), in Ubuntu (and 
derivatives) make sure the restricted modules are installed (and if 
using envy re-run it's installer).