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ooop, sorry, i didnt notice the link to your system specs. Nice site btw, lots of useful info for newbs like me. :)

 

been messing around with my box and the nearest i can get to the (EE) problems is when i deleted some of the symlinks then relinked them again. anyway, hope a solution will be forthcoming...

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Ok, and now it works again.

 

What was up?? Well, I noticed the following line in my /var/log/dmesg

0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module  1.0-4321  Wed Mar  5

19:13:04 PST 2003

 

Saw in /etc/modules this:

NVdriver

 

which I just commented out.

 

And voila, all is well, it boots into graphical login...

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Hi all,

 

I have the same problem as aRTee has. After installing the new NVIDIA driver I can type startx and all looks fine, after rebooting ML 9.1 failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel modul.

I do all the things like:

Iinstalling kernel source.

TheXF86Config-4 is well done. Load „glx“ and Driver „nvidia“ is allways in it.

I take a look at /dev/nvidia* and it seems to be allright. There is a nvidia0 and a nvidiactl.

The /etc/modules.conf looks fine too. There is an alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia.

I do all what James said:

/sbin/modprobe nvidia

/sbin/depmod -ae

Nothing is working.

I try to install the driver with my kernel name:

sh NVIDIA-LINUX-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run -k 2.4.21-013mdk

but it woun't work.

But when I get the command promt there is something wrong. There I can read:

ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed

ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed

ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed

last login.......

Is this the problem? And what does it mean?????????????

 

Thanks,

Dieter :cry: [/u]

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ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed

ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed

ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed

last login.......

 

Is this the problem? And what does it mean?????????????

No that's not the prob with nvidia.

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...7&highlight=ldm

urpmf ldm

gives

kernel-source:/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/Documentation/ldm.txt

 

vi /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/Documentation/ldm.txt

Overview

--------

 

Windows 2000 and XP use a new partitioning scheme. It is a complete

replacement for the MSDOS style partitions. It stores its information in a

1MiB journalled database at the end of the physical disk. The size of

partitions is limited only by disk space. The maximum number of partitions is

nearly 2000.

 

Any partitions created under the LDM are called "Dynamic Disks". There are no

longer any primary or extended partitions. Normal MSDOS style partitions are

now known as Basic Disks.

 

If you wish to use Spanned, Striped, Mirrored or RAID 5 Volumes, you must use

Dynamic Disks. The journalling allows Windows to make changes to these

partitions and filesystems without the need to reboot.

 

Once the LDM driver has divided up the disk, you can use the MD driver to

assemble any multi-partition volumes, e.g. Stripes, RAID5.

 

To prevent legacy applications from repartitioning the disk, the LDM creates a

dummy MSDOS partition containing one disk-sized partition.

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autsch, thats hart for me :oops:

You are right bvc. It was my zip drive. But I allwas starting with KDE and now I must start with the command prompt. So I saw this the first time.

 

But I allways have the problem with the new NVIDIA driver. And just I said I did this things:

TheXF86Config-4 is well done. Load „glx“ and Driver „nvidia“ is allways in it.

I take a look at /dev/nvidia* and it seems to be allright. There is a nvidia0 and a nvidiactl.

The /etc/modules.conf looks fine too. There is an alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia.

I do all what James said:

/etc/security delete /dev/nvidia*

/sbin/modprobe nvidia

/sbin/depmod -ae

Nothing is working.

I try to install the driver with my kernel name:

sh NVIDIA-LINUX-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run -k 2.4.21-013mdk

 

I don't know what to do now :evil:

 

Dieter

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Can you be a bit clearer on your problem?

First you said: if you install the driver, it works fine, then after rebooting it doesn't, just as in my case.

 

Is that still the case, and if so, could you post your /etc/modules file (as root, so in a terminal / konsole window, do a

su

+ root password to become root, then:

cat /etc/modules

and copy paste the result (copy by selecting with the left mouse button, paste into browser by clicking middle mouse button / scrollwheel down) )

 

If not, what happens exactly?

By the way, you don't have to do

sh NVIDIA-LINUX-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run -k 2.4.21-013mdk

just do:

sh NVIDIA-LINUX-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run

as root, naturally.

 

When you say: nothing is working, please specify the response of the system.

 

If you're on text mode (no X / graphics), please realise that you usually do have control of the mouse, and you can easily copy/paste as described before.

You can even scroll up and back down with respectively page-up and page-down.

 

To save the output data or other comments you may have, just put them in a small text file:

cat >> memos.txt

then everything you copy paste or type goes into that file until you hit ctrl-c to exit input mode.

Then later you may retrieve the file for instance in windows. You will need some tool to read the linux partition, or you have to have a fat32 partition (which I fear you don't have) that you can create the memos.txt file on......

 

Also realise that without graphical environment you may not have something to click away on, but you do have an otherwise perfectly functional linux machine, if X is all that doesn't work.

So you may do

lynx http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...t=6888&start=30

on the command line, and check here what's up, for instance. Or go to the nvidia website and download the drivers or read the readme if you didn't download those before, for instance...

 

 

(Not that I believe that GUI/X/graphics mode is overrated, but on linux, CLI/command line interface text mode is really not appreciated as much as it might be.... ;) )

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Ok, what I have done:

 

- download „Installing Nvidia Drivers“ from The Mandrake eXPerience (good side)

- download the NVIDIA-LINUX-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run

- check my BIOS, plug and play os is off

- Install kernel source

- start Linux with the command prompt (normal Linux, not in safe mode)

- change from user to root and change into tmp directory (there is the new driver)

- type sh NVIDIA-LINUX-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run and hit Enter

 

- during the installation the installer not ask me about my kernel or want to built a kernel

module, I was wandering but the installer told me:

„Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated..is now completed. Please.....

 

Because I had used the NVIDIA driver that comes with ML 9.1 I had all the changes in Xfree86Config-4. There was the line Load „glx“ and the driver was „nvidia“.

 

After installing the new Nvdriver I checked /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions. There was a symlink (to the 1.0.4496) called libglx.so. And there was a libglx.so.1.0.4496.

And I checked /dev/. There is one nvidia0 and one nvidiactl.

 

So I type startx.

And all looks fine. I can use my Linux just in old times ;-) Internet, gaming and so on.

I changed the system in the control center to start next time with KDE.

Than I shot down my system.

Next day I was starting my system. I looked on the typical Mandrake screen till my system starts. But than my screen goes black and then back to the starting screen and goes black again (I would call it jumping screen) and than my system starts with the command promt. When I type startx my system says:

NV: could not get NV card info (infalid arguments)

(EE) NVIDIA (0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel modul.

 

And I must do all the things again that you can read above.

In the NVIDIA FAQ you can read something about the kernel. So I thougt the installer uses a other kernel than I do on my system and I installed the new NVIDIA driver with

sh NVIDIA-LINUX-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run -k 2.4.21-0.13mdk (thats my kernel name).

But it doesn't work again.

Than I searching for that problem in this forum and found James answer.

Because of this I uninstall the NVIDIA driver and install it again. But at this time after installing the new driver I use this:

 

- checking /etc/modules.conf (alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia was there)

-/sbin/modprobe nvidia

-/sbin/depmod -ae

But that wasn't working for me. When I reboot my system my screen jumps into black and back and there is allwas the command prompt. What else can I do?

 

Ok aRTee, here is my /etc/modules:

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.

#

# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are

# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with

# a '#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.

 

Nvdriver

scsi_hostadapter

Thats all in the /etc/modules.

 

Or must I change the NVdriver to nvidia? :oops:

Thanks for your help,

 

Dieter

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indeed, it was exactly the same problem I had, and as bvc says, you can change

NVdriver

to

nvidia

or like I did, just comment it out with a #, so that it looks like

#NVdriver

 

Come to think of it, I just commented it out, why put 'nvidia' instead? I have not done that, and my nvidia driver is still loaded, as shown with lsmod | grep nvidia...

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oh my God, it was only because of it?

I change NVdriver in /etc/modules to nvidia and all looks great :lol: :P :wink:

 

Oh no, I was sitting hours and hours and I was so close to....

 

THANK YOU ALL, for your help!

 

Dieter

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i've been reading upuaut / Dieter's post and i noticed this...

 

"After installing the new Nvdriver I checked /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions. There was a symlink (to the 1.0.4496) called libglx.so. And there was a libglx.so.1.0.4496."

 

its just that when i tried to install kmyfirewall after the nvidia drivers were intalled, i had an error which stated that kmyfirewall needs libglx.so (sorry, i wasnt able to save the error message). installing kmyfirewall before installing the nvidia drivers went smoothly.

has anyone experienced this?

by the way, i used kmyfirewall-0.9.6-1phaze.src.rpm.

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