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Lend273
05-25-2001, 07:24 AM
I am trying to install the latest nvidia drivers. When I try to install the
NVIDIA_kernel file, it ends with a message saying something like:
Cant insmod NVdriver.
Driver compiled for kernel 2.4.0 and this is kernel 2.4.2.
I also tried same install when running on 2.2.18 and 2.2.19. Same message.
I don't have kernel 2.4.0.
How can I fix this?
Thanks
Len
I just went through the same thing. In the NVIDIA_GLX-(foo)-tar.gz file there is a README and about 3/4s the way down is the "REQUIRED SOFTWARE" section, which I didn't pay a great deal of attention to, thinking that I was updates on all of my packages. But, Nooo - I needed the new binutlis and X server to make it work !!
I'm running slack 7.1, 2.2.16.
Hope this helps,
-d
pbharris
05-25-2001, 01:58 PM
Originally posted by Lend273:
<STRONG>I am trying to install the latest nvidia drivers. When I try to install the
NVIDIA_kernel file, it ends with a message saying something like:
Cant insmod NVdriver.
Driver compiled for kernel 2.4.0 and this is kernel 2.4.2.
I also tried same install when running on 2.2.18 and 2.2.19. Same message.
I don't have kernel 2.4.0.
How can I fix this?
Thanks
Len</STRONG>
hello,
can you tell us which versions of the driver you downloaded? i.e. rpm for drake, redhat? tgz?
personally i like building my drivers from source for redhat and debian because i use my own kernels.
Lend273
05-25-2001, 03:10 PM
The version is the 0.9-769. I downloaded
and follwed the directions for the source files. ( tar.gz) I have installed these successfully in other distros.
I am having trouble installing them into
Progeny debian.
Thanks for the help.
Len
pbharris
05-25-2001, 04:27 PM
hello,
it seems like i needed to delete the NVidea-kernel.blah directory and re-untar the released files and then make al over again, i can't remember if the *.o files had soem information about the kernel version it found. you have probably already done this...
wtsamatta
05-25-2001, 06:39 PM
I use slack too so I don't know if this'll work for you. I'd check for extral libGL.so.xxx files in /usr/lib. IIRC the drivers use the libs in /usr/X11/X11R6/lib but by default it'll use the libs in /usr/lib, and they are not the correct 1's. Have you also run xconfig? Did you chang nv to nvidia? Like I said,dunno if this'll work for you, deb is a bit different than slack.