Re: NVIDIA driver problem

Thanks that brought me a bit further. Unfortunantly I'm not quite there yet.

I removed kernel sources, installed them again, ran YOU and rebooted.
I then followed the instructions stated below (make cloneconfig, make 
prepare-all, init 3 and ran the nvidia-installer again) which brought me 
to a position where the installer warned me that "rivafb" was included 
as a loadable module and that that might cause conflicts. I proceeded 
and the installer terminated cleanly. I ran Sax2 which detected  me 
NVidia 0x0281 card. I started X and proceeded to Sax2 in graphical mode 
to enable 3D acceleration. I ran the "test" which gave the following:
    X Server test failed
    NVIDIA(0): *** aborting ***
    Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration

What's next?

I really appreciate your efforts by the way.

:)Bogi

Adalberto Castelo wrote:

>Bogi,
>
>Here's what you need:
>
>1) install the kernel source rpm from SuSE.
>2) go to /usr/src/linux (where the source should be when you use the suse 
>rpms) and type
>	$ make cloneconfig
>	This will make sure that the config file used by make to create dependencies 
>will match your current kernel's config.
>3) type
>	$ make prepare-all
>4) make sure your system is in init 3 (go to a terminal and type init 3 as 
>root, or type '3' on the suse splash screen that shows the boot menu (kernel, 
>safe mode, etc.)
>5) go back to where you have the .run pkg, type
>	$ sh NVIDIA-etc-etc.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
>
>I assume you can set up the XConfig file or have one already working.
>
>Now, do not mess with what is in /lib, unless you know what you're doing. And 
>do not use kernel sources that do not match you kernel perfectly.
>
>That should get you going. Good luck.
>
>
>On Sunday 30 January 2005 05:59, Bogi Mouritsen wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have an NVIVIA Geforce 4000 (as far as I remember), and I have had
>>trouble with it through several SuSE installations. However I have
>>always managed to get it to work and it works just peachy when I need to
>>use Windows.
>>
>>I just installed 9.2 and to no surprise YOU couldn't install the driver
>>so I tried to install it using the .run file from nvidia-com. After
>>going into "init 3" this is what I get:
>>1. My system does not find a precompiled kernel interface, so it tries
>>to download one from nvidia.com. There is no one there either.
>>2. When trying to make a kernel interface I get an error stating that
>>the kernel header file
>>/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.11-default/build/include/linux/kernel.h was not
>>found. This could be due to kernel-src not being installed, so I
>>installed the additional package.
>>3. Tried again and after additional errors I found that kernel.h was in
>>another directory.
>>4. ran "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path
>>/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/include".
>>5. Finally I get: ERROR: unable to build NVIDIA kernel module.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>:)Bogi
>>    
>>