[64studio-users] nvidia, oh my god, nvidia

[Gustin Johnson]

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Did you install the binary driver from NVidia?
Download the driver from nvidia.com
then run:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run -a
then "modprobe nvidia"  (it will do this automatically from now on)
then "/etc/init.d/gdm restart"

Fran López wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> Before the actual question, I just wanted to tell you I completed my
> first real job (comissioned and paid for, I mean) under 64studio, wich i
> sort of took as a test. And since everything went well, I decided to go
> 100% 64studio, instead of dual boot.
> I got everything I needed and everything is working just great, the only
> thing i'm lacking is nVidia support for my 3d work.
> 
> I followed the instructions on the site, downloaded the propper packages
> and changed the "Driver "vesa"" line for "Driver "nvidia"" line.
> 
> When i rebooted, X couldn't start. The error message lines I managed to
> copy (and thought were important) were these:
> FATAL: Module nvidia not found
> (EE) NVIDIA (0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA (0):  ***Aborting***
> 
> So I rebooted to single user mode, logged in root and runned Xorg
> -configure. It couldn't detect my mouse and some other stuff, so the new
> conf file was useless, but it did seemed to get the nvidia settings
> right (Driver, VendorName, BoardName, Bus ID) so I took that data to my
> old  xorg.conf file.
> Rebooted, and got the same error message.
> Got back to vesa, and here I am.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Francisco Lopez
> PS: Oh, by the way, I have a GeForce 6150, if that information helps
> somehow.
> 
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