Re: NVIDIA driver problem

I have had problems with the nvidia kernel as well.

Are you booting directly into X11 ?

If so that will not probably work.

My machine boots into console mode - then I run X11 (KDE)
with 'startx'.

My kernel update scenario works like this.

As root user in console mode:
             ^^^^^^^^^^

Update kernel to k_deflt using 'fou4s --auto'.

Install kernel update using 'fou4s -i --interactive'.

double check kernel update installation with 'rpm -qv
k_deflt'.

If OK - Run mk_initrd.

Reboot machine to activate latest kernel upgrade.

Again from the console command line, as root user;
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Compile the nvidia driver with

/path/to/nvidia-driver/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/nvidia-installer.

cd to:

/path/to/nvidia-driver/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/

run 'make install'

then 'depmod -a'

That should build the new nvidia driver, for the latest
kernel update.

Next - check your mouse is working OK, if so
start the X11 Window system!

HTH - Keith Roberts

PS I'm running an older version of SuSE Linux 8.x pro and
using an earlier version of the nvidia driver.

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Bogi Mouritsen wrote:

> To: [email protected]
> From: Bogi Mouritsen <[email protected]>
> Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] NVIDIA driver problem
>
> 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
>
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