linux-image-386 (linux-image-2.6.15.26) and Nvidia support

[Serg B.]

I did depmod and modprobe and so on and so forth, no luck. I also ran
a mor generic find and parsed through the outout, seems like i do have
nvidia module. Modprobe is not finding it though.

On 01/08/06, golfer <golfbuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/31/06, Serg B. <sergicles at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I had the same missing module problem when I upgraded to the
> 2.6.15-26 version.  In my case 'sudo depmod -a' worked, and 'sudo
> modprobe nvidia' worked.
>
> Make sure you have the nvidia module by doing:
>
> golfbuf :~$ find /lib/modules/ -iname '*nvidia*'
>
> with results, something like:
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/volatile/nvidia_legacy.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/volatile/nvidia.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-686/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-686/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-686/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
>
> BTW, I have the 26 version installed but find it freezes me after
> running some time .. so I have to continue using 23 version.  I filed
> a bug on malone, and some others have the similar problem.
>
> HTH,
>
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