Befuddled!

[Yanski 0]

Hi guys,

This is doing me 'ed in and I have finally got down to asking some questions.

 

I am running FC3 and when I get a new kernel from RedHat using up2date I lose X because I am running the NVidia driver.

 

I got the source rpm and installed it. Do I now have to do a make modules;make modules-install? I tried getting the NVidia driver down but it fails for some reason, nothing happens on the screen.

 

Cheers

 

Ian

[iamroot 0]

All you need to do when u use a new kernel is to reinstall the nvidia driver.

[Yanski 0]

After getting the kernel sources you mean? I get complaints from the driver if I don't have them.

 

Ian

[danleff 0]

The driver needs the kernel source. I just did an installation on Mandrake. The readme faqs speaks to this.

 

At what point does the driver fail, on installation, or when you restart the system?

 

...and you did do the installation from init 3, not when "X" was running?

[Yanski 0]

Just been trying again to get the best info I can. I have installed the driver on the previous kernel, 2.6.11-1.14

The latest kernel installed by up2date on my machine is 2.6.12-1.1372 so I grabbed the source from the Fedora download site and ran the RPM. I made sure to have a symlink in /usr/src called linux and linked to the linux-2.6.12-1 directory created from the RPM.

All goes well until it actually starts to look at the sources and then this happens...

 

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'

creation time: Tue Aug 16 17:30:47 2005

 

option status:

license pre-accepted : false

update : false

force update : false

expert : false

uninstall : false

driver info : false

no precompiled interface: false

no ncurses color : false

query latest driver ver : false

OpenGL header files : true

no questions : false

silent : false

no backup : false

kernel module only : false

sanity : false

add this kernel : false

no runlevel check : false

no network : false

no ABI note : false

no RPMs : false

force tls : (not specified)

force compat32 tls : (not specified)

X install prefix : /usr/X11R6

OpenGL install prefix : /usr

compat32 install prefix : (not specified)

installer install prefix: /usr

utility install prefix : /usr

kernel name : (not specified)

kernel include path : (not specified)

kernel source path : /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-1

kernel output path : (not specified)

kernel install path : (not specified)

proc mount point : /proc

ui : (not specified)

tmpdir : /tmp

ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com

RPM file list : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface

-> License accepted.

-> There appears to already be a driver installed on your system (version: 1.0-

7667). As part of installing this driver (version: 1.0-7667), the existing

driver will be uninstalled. Are you sure you want to continue? ('no' will a

bort installation) (Answer: Yes)

-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li

ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f

rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)

-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;

this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for your kernel.

-> Using the kernel source path '/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-1' as specified by the

'--kernel-source-path' commandline option.

-> Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-1'

-> Performing CC test with CC="cc".

ERROR: If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure

you either have configured kernel sources matching your

kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed

on your system.

 

If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure

you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel

installed on your system. If you specified a separate

output directory using either the "KBUILD_OUTPUT" or

the "O" KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this

directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with

the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.

 

Depending on where and how the kernel sources (or the

kernel headers) were installed, you may need to specify

their location with the SYSSRC environment variable or

the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.

ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file

'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions

on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux

driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

 

You can see from this file that I also tried removing the symlink and actually naming the directory with the actual kernel name.

 

I would love to know what I am doing wrong.

 

Ian