Followed the instructions on this thread, and the installer ran as expected.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13443

But, X can't start with either the original xorg.conf, the tv-out sample, or the one created by the installer. It looks like there are no GLX module or nvidia kernel module (see selections from Xorg.0.log). the nvidia installer log says it completed installation. There was one error, but it doesn't seem to have cause a problem (see below).

But
lsmod | grep nvidia
returns nothing.

**regarding the source, I did not kill the make after 20 seconds - perhaps this is the issue. Was confused as to why to do that and it was spitting out output, so I let it finish**

Can anyone help out?
Thanks!!!!

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Warnings and errors from Xorg.0.log:

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
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(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1: undefined symbol: _nv000040gl
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (loader failed, 7)
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Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If you continue to encounter problems, Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly. Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.

(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

NVIDIA INSTALLER LOG

echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are mis
sing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it
."; \
echo;
---------
-> Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86' (1.0-9746):
executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'...
-> done.
-> Driver file installation is complete.
-> Running post-install sanity check:
-> done.
-> Post-install sanity check passed.
-> Shared memory test passed.
-> Running runtime sanity check:
-> done.
-> Runtime sanity check passed.
-> Would you like to run the nvidia-xconfig utility to automatically update you
r X configuration file so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used when you res
tart X? Any pre-existing X configuration file will be backed up. (Answer: Y
es)
-> Your X configuration file has been successfully updated. Installation of
the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 (version: 1.0-9746) is
now complete.

now on to getting xorg.conf configured properly