Re: intall nvidia driver on debian lenny

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 20:31:09 +0200, Bogdan Marian wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:

>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 19:21:00 +0200, Bogdan Marian wrote:
>>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>>>>> Bogdan Marian wrote:

[...]

>>>>>> Nick, I'm running Lenny, so nvidia-glx is not in the repos...
>>>>>> Michal, I tried the methods on that page and it didn't work... Last 
>>>>>> thing i tried was to install the NVIDIA way, using the Nvidia .bin 
>>>>>> supplied from their home site...still no luck.
>>>>>>                 
>>>> Which kernel do you run? (Post the output of "uname -a".)
>>>>
>>>> Which nvidia card are we talking about? (Post the relevant part of your
>>>> "lspci" output.)
>>>>
>>>> Which version of the nvidia driver did you install? (We need the exact
>>>> name of the file that you downloaded and executed.) Did you get any
>>>> error messages or warnings when you attempted the installation?
>>>>
>>>> Change your xorg.conf to use the nvidia driver and (re)start X. After it
>>>> fails/crashes, run the following two commands and post their output:
>>>>
>>>> egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>>>
>>>> egrep -i 'nvidia|glx' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[...]

> No error while installing ( except for a warning about the version of the
> gcc (it 4.2 as i'm on lenny) )

I think it can cause problems if you use a different version of gcc to compile the nvidia module (as compared to what was used to compile the kernel).

> NVIDIA FX5200

>

[...]

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

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[...]

> mydebian:/home/bogdan# uname -a
> Linux mydebian 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686
> GNU/Linux

>

>

OK, it does load the Xorg driver for nvidia ("nvidia_drv.so" and/or "nvidia_drv.o" located in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/) but then it cannot load the nvidia kernel module (nvidia.ko).

First, check if the kernel module exists at all:

find /lib/modules/2.6.22-2-686/ -name nvidia.ko

(I would expect that the file exists; the nvidia installer should have  given you a clear error if it had not been able to create the module.)

If the file exists, try to load it by running as root:

modprobe -v nvidia

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(I suspect your problem is caused by the gcc version mismatch and/or the  paravirt/GPL-only issue. I hope that the modprobe command will give you  an error message which tells us what exactly is going on.)

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