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nonhuman
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 Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 7:08 pm Post subject: Installing NVIDIA Drivers |
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| I have a GeForce4, and I've been having problems getting the NVIDIA drivers to install properly. I'm running 1.4_rc1 on the 2.5.46 kernel. When I emerge nvidia-kernel I keep getting errors about unresolved symbols, but it seems to install. If I try and modprobe NVdriver I get the same errors. Has anyone successfully installed the drivers with a similar configuration? |
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securiteaze
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:54 am Post subject: |
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2.5.46? Why are you running the development kernel?
You may have better luck with the current stable kernel, 2.4.19 (vanilla-sources)
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praxim
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 3:10 am Post subject: |
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Actually, I just emerged -u world and found a kernel update (gentoo sources) and an nVidia driver update. Compiling the driver gives a stream of errors
beginning with the following:
nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:11,
This then turns into a bunch of other errors for obvious reasons. I hope it's fixed soon. |
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nonhuman
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| I'm using the development kernel, because I can't get the 2.4 kernel to compile with the options that I want. |
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Tiber
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Download the ones from the nvidia website. The installation is simple, unpack the TAR files and do a "make && make install" in both directories. Do NOT do this while running X. Make sure AGPART is disabled in the kernel (or else compile the nvidia kernel driver with "make -NOAGPART" I believe it is). From that point forward, just setup your X and it should fly. I avoided the gentoo ones and haven't had any problems.
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green sun
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| Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 11:05 pm Post subject: quick note... |
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I posted this in another thread, but dont forget to change the Driver name in your XF86Config(-4) file:
# Device configured by xf86config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nv"
#VideoRam 32768
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
otherwise it wont work. NVidia's readme file details all this. Ive got a GForce2Go in my laptop & have never had a problem... |
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vers_iq
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 12:13 am Post subject: Re: Installing NVIDIA Drivers |
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| nonhuman wrote: | | I have a GeForce4, and I've been having problems getting the NVIDIA drivers to install properly. I'm running 1.4_rc1 on the 2.5.46 kernel. When I emerge nvidia-kernel I keep getting errors about unresolved symbols, but it seems to install. If I try and modprobe NVdriver I get the same errors. Has anyone successfully installed the drivers with a similar configuration? |
It is well known that nvidia X driver will not work against any 2.5.x developement kernel, but if u insist search one of the kernel mailing lists for the patch.
| praxim wrote: | Actually, I just emerged -u world and found a kernel update (gentoo sources) and an nVidia driver update. Compiling the driver gives a stream of errors
beginning with the following:
nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:11,
This then turns into a bunch of other errors for obvious reasons. I hope it's fixed soon. |
The reason is because the source couldnt identify the kernel version your machine is using. everytime after u update kernel source, identifier of your kernel version is cleaned, this also happens when someone does "make mrproper" or "make distclean" in kernel dir (/usr/src/linux). u can fix this by make menuconfig, make dep, make clean bzImage modules. u dont have to install the new kernel or modules but it is highly recomended, this is to make sure the kernel version in /usr/src/linux and the kernel being used are the same. |
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praxim
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks. I should've known that, but I guess it just escaped me. |
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