NVIDIA Drivers and Slackware 8.0

[jrbush82]

When I try to install NVIDIA_kernel drivers, I get these errors:

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol __global_cli
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol tqueue_lock
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol __global_save_flags
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol __global_restore_flags
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver failed
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver: insmod NVdriver failed
make: *** [package-install] Error 255

ANY ideas?

Thanks,
Jason Bush

[thor420]

Are you using the stock 2.4.5 or have you recompiled?

[jrbush82]

stock? as in what came with slackware? yes

[mjb0314]

Make the following changes in the file below, then you should be able to compile the nvidia drivers, or recompile your kernel.

'/usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h'
'#define CONFIG_SMP 1'
to
'#undef CONFIG_SMP'

[jrbush82]

Wow, thx... worked like a charm... just one thing, where the hell did you hear about this? It was not in the documentation... How.. what exactly did it do?!

[TheGimp]

it's pretty much all over the slackware.com forums
well, what was the slackware.com forum :(

[jrbush82]

ah... I went to the slack website, lol, looked for about 10 minutes for the forums... never did find em, maybe because they gone eh? lol

[mjb0314]

I originally read about it at the slackware forums, but since they've mysteriously disappeared, I decided to search LNO to see if anyone here had posted the fix. Luckily, someone did!!

Glad you got it working!!