[lug] Nvidia driver disappears

[steve at badcheese.com]

You probably upgraded your kernel a while ago and just now rebooted.  Just 
re-install the nvidia driver and you should be good-to-go.

- Steve

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Steve Sullivan wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:52:34 -0600
> From: Steve Sullivan <sullivan at mathcom.com>
> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Nvidia driver disappears
> 
> Hi,
>
> My nvidia driver suddenly stopped working.  I didn't make any system
> changes, but today when I booted the machine X wouldn't come up.
> Come to think of it, maybe I did use Yast to install whatever patches
> were current a few days ago.
> I'm running Suse 10.2 on a dual Intel-32.
>
> I tried running sax2 from the command line, but it also
> failed.  The sax log ends with ...
>
> 	(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> 	(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> 	(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> 	(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> 	(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> 	(==) NVIDIA(0): Using HW cursor
> 	(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
> 	(==) NVIDIA(0): Video key set to default value of 0x101fe
> 	FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.5-bigsmp/weak-updates/nvidia.ko): No such device
> 	(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
> 	(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> 	(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> 	(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
> 	(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> 	(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> 	Fatal server error:
> 	no screens found
>
> So I used command-line yast to deinstall and reinstall the modules:
>  nvidia-gfx-kmp-bigsmp
>  x11-video-nvidia
>
> I rebooted, and still sax2 fails.  When I try to startx, it loops
> spewing out messages - the only way out is power off or ctl-alt-del.
> Do you have any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
>

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