nvidia 2.6.0 solution

[bascule]

If you get an error message like QM_MODULES: Function not implemented you haven't gotten the module-init-tools for 2.6.0 installed.

Nvidia users need to patch the nvidia-kernel sources with the appropriate diff from http://www.minion.de [minion.de] and apply before installing your new nvidia.o. My install went like this (Gentoo 1.4):
1. Get the nvidia-kernel package
#emerge -f nvidia-kernel
(if it's not already is /usr/portage/distfile)
2. Extract nvidia-kernel
#sh NVIDIA-Linux-...-pk0 --extract-only
3. Patch driver
#cd usr/src/nv
#patch -p1 NVIDIA_Kernel-1.0.4496-2.6.diff
#ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile
#make install

Hope this helps someone out there, I spent an hour or two googling to figure this out, so I hope I can save someone the trouble :)


Courtesy of xchino from /. I thought it was useful

[viperlin]

use nvidia beta drivers version 4620

evailiable from:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=112361

[voidinit]

Originally posted by bascule
If you get an error message like QM_MODULES: Function not implemented you haven't gotten the module-init-tools for 2.6.0 installed.

Nvidia users need to patch the nvidia-kernel sources with the appropriate diff from http://www.minion.de [minion.de] and apply before installing your new nvidia.o. My install went like this (Gentoo 1.4):
1. Get the nvidia-kernel package
#emerge -f nvidia-kernel
(if it's not already is /usr/portage/distfile)
2. Extract nvidia-kernel
#sh NVIDIA-Linux-...-pk0 --extract-only
3. Patch driver
#cd usr/src/nv
#patch -p1 NVIDIA_Kernel-1.0.4496-2.6.diff
#ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile
#make install

Hope this helps someone out there, I spent an hour or two googling to figure this out, so I hope I can save someone the trouble :)


Courtesy of xchino from /. I thought it was useful

This is percisely what I did. Be sure you read the README provided from minion.de it is very important. If you try to run the automated installer compile nvidia drivers for your system it will fail.

[MisterP]

Since I am new to patching a kernel and I use Debian...

Do I want nvidia-source? or nvidia-binary? And is minion.de referring to nvidia-glx packages.

*sigh*

[serz]

What kernel are you patching? Remember this is for 2.6.

You need the NVIDIA driver you can get from nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com/) and you have to download the patch for your NVIDIA driver version from minion.de (http://www.minion.de/).

Now, take a look to the NVIDIA driver's README (it is in minion.de (http://www.minion.de/)) you use, it will tell you how to patch and install.

What you're doing here is applying a patch to the NVIDIA driver and then install it.

[DerekKraan]

I've got a problem. Everything works perfectly except for my nvidia card. When I emerge the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx and restart X with the new driver in the config, I only get a screen with b0rked looking characters. My system is unresponsive, and I'm forced to hard reboot. Any ideas?