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

[Harry Devine]

Sarah Hayes wrote:
> 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).
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>   
I had something similar last week when I installed 169.12 from ATRPMs.  
It couldn't find nvidia-graphics-helpers and there was an RPM package 
problem with it IIRC.  I only mention it because my xorg.0.log file 
showed that it couldn't load the driver.  I saw that the 
nvidia-graphics-helpers was fixed as of Thursday and I re-installed the 
169.12 drivers.  Worked good for me.

Hope this helps,
Harry