[mythtv-users] Unable to load Nvidia Kernal Module - Geforce 4 MX - issues upgrading video cards

[Leigh]

Mike Jones wrote:

>Sunday, May 29, 2005, 11:11:39 AM, you wrote:
>
>MTD> Mike Jones wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>Sunday, May 29, 2005, 12:44:39 AM, MTD wrote:
>>>
>>>MTD> modprobe nvidia
>>>MTD> startx
>>>
>>>/sbin/modprobe nvidia
>>>
>>>FATAL: Module nvidia not found.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>MTD> Oh.  That means that you are lacking the nvidia kernel module interface 
>MTD> for your kernel.  Try re-installing the nvidia drivers and keep a log in 
>MTD> case it doesn't help.  The install log could be helpful in determining 
>MTD> the problem.
>
>Been there, done that, several times.  Did it again today, still no
>joy.  Rebooted, copied the xorg.conf.nvidia over the xorg.conf and
>still got the same old same old msg. Time to do a complete reinstall,
>oh well.  Thanks for the tips.
>
>Now my remote doesn't work, sigh.
>
>Follows is the text from the install attempt #7.
>---------------------------------------------
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  nvidia-graphics7174-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.atsmp
>0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 177 not upgraded.
>Need to get 0B/1289kB of archives.
>After unpacking 4383kB of additional disk space will be used.
>Committing changes...
>Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>   1:nvidia-graphics7174-kmd########################################### [100%]
>Done.
>
>[root at localhost /]# apt-get install nvidia-graphics7174
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  nvidia-graphics7174
>0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 177 not upgraded.
>Need to get 0B/1127kB of archives.
>After unpacking 2885kB of additional disk space will be used.
>Committing changes...
>Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>   1:nvidia-graphics7174    ########################################### [100%]
>Done.
>  
>
Have you tried just installin the nvidia drivers the old fashioned way, 
i.e download them from the nvidia site?
I've only ever done them that way and never had any probs..
You can even get it to compile a custome installation file for your 
current kernel so if you need to reinstall at some point it saves a lot 
of time..