[elrepo] kmod-nvidia: display not found

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 03/24/2012 02:23 PM, Gena Makhomed wrote:
> On 24.03.2012 3:17, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>
>> Under 6.1, I was able to run the nvidia-x11-drv from elrepo. As of 6.2 I
>> no longer can. These are the RPMs I am using:
>>
>> kmod-nvidia-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>> nvidia-x11-drv-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Note: 275.21 gives the same symptoms: Display not found
>
> look at /var/log/messages, lines like this are present?
>
>    kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X GPU installed in
> this system is
>    kernel: NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy drivers.
> Please
>    kernel: NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
>    kernel: NVRM:  information.  The 295.20 NVIDIA driver will ignore
>    kernel: NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
>    kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
>
> I have idea make driver kmod-nvidia96 for such "old" hardware,
> but not have many free time right now...
>
> may be people from elrepo project can build kmod-nvidia96
> with NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy drivers for "old" nVidia hardware?
>

This is all I could find with nVidia in it:

/var/log/messages:
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Mar 23 17:43:10 rn4 kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Mar 23 17:43:10 rn4 kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Mar 23 17:43:10 rn4 kernel: nvidia 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 
(level, low) -> IRQ 16
Mar 23 17:43:10 rn4 kernel: vgaarb: device changed decodes: 
PCI:0000:03:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
Mar 23 17:43:10 rn4 kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel 
Module  295.20  Mon Feb  6 21:07:30 PST 2012


Mar 23 17:50:21 rn4 kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Mar 23 17:50:21 rn4 kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Mar 23 17:50:21 rn4 kernel: nvidia 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 
(level, low) -> IRQ 16
Mar 23 17:50:21 rn4 kernel: vgaarb: device changed decodes: 
PCI:0000:03:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
Mar 23 17:50:21 rn4 kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel 
Module  295.20  Mon Feb  6 21:07:30 PST 2012
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