polemicz Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 I just put a new geforce4-440 card on my system and installed the nvidia drivers. All appeared to be fine. I installed by booting into console mode, no X, and then entered startx and things were fine. Today when I booted up things weren't fine and I got this (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Not sure what this means as I've never ventured into the mysteries of Nvidia drivers until now. By the way I loaded the latest driver onto 10.1 OE with the kernel source installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00blar Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 Did you make any changes to your kernel or did you patch it in any way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 My guess is the nvidia module is not loading as this is a very common problem with mdk10.1. To test, boot to a command line login and run: $ su <enter root password> # modproble nvidia # exit $ startx The modprobe command manually loads the nvidia module. If you get to a gui, then you can be sure the module is not autoloading at boot. Post back if this applies and I'll go through how to correct the problem so the module autoloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted December 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 Pmpatrick, the modprobe nvidia did the trick, thanks. Looking forward to your follow-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 There are several ways to do it but some have encountered problems with the usual ways which would be to edit /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.preload. Here's one that always works - edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules by adding this line at the very end of the script: modprobe nvidia That's it. You have to be root to edit the file and if your in a gui, right click on the script and open it with kwrite to edit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted December 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 worked like a charm, thanks loads. another reason mandrakeusers board is better than sliced bread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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