r165 does not recognize nVidia core at /dev/nvidiactl about pyrit HOT 5 CLOSED

Just noticed that this exact error is addressed in the Troubleshooting 
directory...

Let me give it a shot...

Troubleshooting guide says:

NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or 
directory). 
Ensure that the 'nvidia' module has been successfully loaded. Taking a look at 
the 
kernel ringbuffer may give more help: 
 modprobe nvidia 
 dmesg | tail

On my system, the modprobe nvidia command comes back with no error and no other 
output other than the system prompt.

The next command dmesg | tail  shows the last event to be related to the DHCP 
address pulled:

EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ processors 
(2 
cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a 
way 
that Linux understands. Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers and 
complain to your BIOS vendor.
[Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a 
way 
that Linux understands. Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers and 
complain to your BIOS vendor.
eth1: no link during initialization.
eth1: link up.



And that's it.

Suggestions?

Filter nvidia-related messages with "dmesg | grep nvidia" and post the results.

Lukas,

Got it working. It may be related to non-root user doing the modprobe command. 
Switched to root user, performed modprobe nvidia, dmesg | grep nvidia shows 
related 
output, and the card was recognizable once again. Thanks for your support! 
Please 
close the ticket.

closed