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y-man

Member

From: Ottawa, On, Canada

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 8

Questions: On NVIDIA Kernel module and install process

Hi everyone,

I have a PCIe 7600 GT card, and trying to get it to work in its full power.

So far I have not succeeded, and condemned to run in VESA mode. But have one more try to do following the advisory of upgrading kernel and reinstalling the Nvidia driver.

I have few questions though:
- I know my kernel as 2.6.15-ARCH (from the dir in /usr/src), but in the above mentioned advisory, there were more digits after ("2.6.16.14-1"). Where in my system, I can locate those micro version numbers, if I need to?

- My not-yet-working Nvidia driver insrtall (from [testing]) left a kernel module with "agp" in the name. Is it the way it should be, taking into account that I have a PCIe card? Or is this pointing to an install problem?

- I have browsed the stuff in the 8756 vintage of the Nvidia driver, and noticed that there are references to X11R6 which I do not have (have an  X R7 Xorg). Which one of  the driver-install-script or Arch-PKGBUILD-file has the intelligence to place the files correctly in R6 and R7 installs?

- The 8756 text also refers to nvidia-xconfig utility, and I did use it in my 64-bit Gentoo install. In my Arch install it is no where to be found. Again,  is this pointing to an install problem?

Thanks,

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Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,547

Re: Questions: On NVIDIA Kernel module and install process

1.

pacman -Q kernel26

will give you the minor numbers

2. no clue

3. the 8751 driver works fine with xorg 7, so i presume the new one should work also.

4. no clue

as an alternative to VESA :

pacman -S xf86-video-nv

this will install the open source nvidia driver. It supports only 2D acceleration, but should improve your screen a lot over standard VESA.
put

Driver "nv"

in your device section in xorg.conf to enable it.

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Try clean chroot manager by graysky

ylikone

Member

From: Southern Ontario

Registered: 2004-12-17

Posts: 45

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Re: Questions: On NVIDIA Kernel module and install process

I have a PCI-express nVidia 7600 GS and it is working fine... but not with the current nvidia module in arch stable... so I just went to the nvidia website and downloaded the latest binary for Linux and ran their installer.  It compiled a  kernel module for me and it is working fine now.  I originally was also just using "vesa", which sucked big time!  Even "nv" wouldn't work with this card.  Anyway, it is running great now... but I wonder if the next pacman nvidia update will work properly now?

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iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Questions: On NVIDIA Kernel module and install process

- My not-yet-working Nvidia driver insrtall (from [testing]) left a kernel module with "agp" in the name. Is it the way it should be, taking into account that I have a PCIe card? Or is this pointing to an install problem?

the package in testing is compiled for 2.6.16-ARCH, not the 2.6.15-ARCH you have. Please update kernel26 and use nvidia and nvidia-utils from [testing]

James

ylikone

Member

From: Southern Ontario

Registered: 2004-12-17

Posts: 45

Website

Re: Questions: On NVIDIA Kernel module and install process

So, I just upgraded my nvidia again and even though it should now be the correct version in stable (1.0-8762) which works with my card, it didn't work.  I have nvidia-utils installed and updated as well, so it's not that.  Had to go back and grab the latest *.run install file for Linux from the Nvidia website... and it's working again.

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