nvidia driver and startx problems

[paully1]

(im running slack 7.1)

Ok, I tried to 'make' the nvidia drivers but get the following error:

/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/video/NVdriver:insmod NVdriver failed
error 255

What exactly does the above error mean? I looked in the video directory and it had an NVdriver file. I read the article at toms hardware and it said to look fof the define agp in autoconf.h which I found. But when I do /sbin/lsmod it doesnt list agpgart.o, heck it doesnt list anything.

So could be a conflict? It's looking for the agpgart.o and not finding it? Where would I find the agpgart.o file if I do have it? I checked around and couldnt find it.

next issue:
I tried to do startx just to see if i could get it running and it wouldnt start because of the following error:

error in loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

Any ideas?

thanks again,
paully

p.s. paully=paully1 i had to reregister

[This message has been edited by paully1 (edited 03 December 2000).]

[PLBlaze]

I'm not familiar with nvidia's driver but i will offer few pointers...

To get agpgart.o you'd need to recompile your kernel to include support for agp port.You can choose it as module (agpgart.o) or have it right in the kernel image.

Under slack there is a problem with ncurses library because it's newer than the one your X setup is looking for.I've posted this few times here but here it goes again.simply do cd /lib && ln -s libncurses.so.5.2 libncurses.so.4 && ldconfig.Hope this helps.