[mythtvnz] OK - here we go!

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 08:57:32 +1300
Steve Hodge wrote:

> On 12/4/05, Robert Fisher <robert@fisher.net.nz> wrote:
> > Xorg.0.log is with "nvidia" in xorg.conf
> > (X does not start with this option)
> 
> It's saying the kernel part of the nvidia driver isn't working.
> 
> > Xorg.0.log.old is with "nv" in xorg.conf
> 
> That one definitely doesn't know how to do twinview setups (says the
> options are unknown).
> 
> > I have emerged nvidia-kernel && nvidia-glx
> > opengl-update nvidia
> >
> > nvidia is in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
> 
> Did you run modules-update after updating the file in /etc/modules.autoload.d/ ?
> 
> Have you tried manually loading nvidia with modprobe before running X?
> If you do that you might see something in the kernel log via dmesg to
> explain why it's not working.
> 
> Steve

better still does lsmod report that the nvidia module is actually
loaded?

I vaguely recall having to manually load it using modprobe when using
each new version of nvidia-kernel. - the first time anyway.


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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>