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Old July 6th 03, 07:19 PM
Walt
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In the readme it explains how to start
the nvidia module on boot up it the
correct way to start a module. In
addition the readme has the neccessary
info on configuring X.


Jason Becker wrote:

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Hi All.

I have a Nvidia GeForce2 MX 400 video
card that I'm using with Mandrake
9.1. I installed the latest Nvidia
driver available from:


http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=li..._ia32_1.0-4363

Problem is that it seems rather
flakey. It will work for awhile and
then X will fail to load. The
/var/log/mdkkde.log writes the
following entry:

-begin-

Using vt 7
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize
the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a
usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

-end-

If I:

insmod ./nvidia.o

it will work fine again, for awhile.

Anyone else experienced the same? I
think this driver is buggy. This
is becoming rather annoying...

Thanks in advance.

Cheers



As a workaround I have added:

insmod

/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o

to my /etc/rc.local

Cheers


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