Nvdia module

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 3/6/07, Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter.garcia at upf.edu> wrote:
> * Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> [070306 16:48]:
> > Yes, 1.0-8776 is also quite old, and also unsupported.  I guess I
> > don't understand why you can't fall back to using the 'nv' X driver if
> > the 'nvidia' X driver isn't working?
>
> The nvidia X driver is actually working, it just doesn't work with the
> last update of the kernel (maybe because I have to update also the
> nvidia module from livna which I understood is specific for each kernel).

That's fully expected with an unsupported old nvidia driver version.

>
> How would I fall back to the "nv" driver? If I could do that reliably I
> could try to install the "dkms" package to let the nvidia driver be
> built at boot-up, so that if it fails I can always get my desktop back
> to keep trying things...

This is all covered in the driver README.  In short, all you have to
do is change 'nvidia' to 'nv' in xorg.conf.


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