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On 8 Sep 2004 04:51:45 -0700, wg wrote:
> Anyone having problems with Nvidia's latest .6111 driver and the
> 2.6.8.1 kernel?
>
> I'd been using the driver on a 2.4.26 machine with no problems. Then,
> I built a vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel, rebooted, installed the Nvidia
> driver for the new kernel, and checked xorg.conf. (No changes were
> needed since it was already setup correctly.)
>
> When I ran startx, X came up, minus the Nvidia splash screen and with
> X writing a "cannot find Nvidia driver" line to its log. If it could
> not find the Nvidia driver, I'm not sure what driver it did, in fact,
> use. My experience has been that X does not run when it cannot find
> the specified dirver; it does not "fall back" to another driver.
>
> In any case, I double-checked things. The driver was exactly where it
> should be. I uninstalled the driver for 2.4.26. Regardless, the
> behavior remained and the only error logged was that line about the
> "missing" driver.
>
> This is on a Slackware 10 (now current) machine running Slack's Xorg
> driver.

I ran into a similar problem last night, I decided to give 2.6.8.1
(with latest acpi and voluntary-preempt patches) a try and I
couldn't start X with the nvidia (.6111) module even though it was the same
xorg.conf file that worked with 2.6.7.

Strangely, what worked for me was adding:
Option "NvAGP" "1"
to the Section "Device" section of xorg.conf. Why it seems strange,
is that dmesg shows:
NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!!
NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!!

But X loads now...not 100% happy, but it works.

Also Slackware 10/current on a Dell Inspiron 5150 with
NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 (1600x1200)

Brad



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