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I was trying to install the Nvidia driver on my computer using these instructions, but when I got into the installer and accepted the agreement, it said that it couldn't find a "precompiled kernel interface". I installed the kernel sources for my kernel. Could it be that it is looking in the wrong path? if so, how do I change the path it is looking in?
here is my nvidia-installer.log:
Code:
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Fri Apr 9 14:05:08 2004
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 : false
no questions : false
silent : false
XFree86 install prefix : /usr/X11R6
OpenGL install prefix : /usr
Installer install prefix: /usr
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp site : ftp://download.nvidia.com
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> 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.
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
'--kernel-source-path' commandline 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.
i have installed pcq linux 2004 which is a linux distro based on fedora 1.
i tried to install nvidia video drivers but i got the error message that a pre compiled kernel interface was not found.please help
Last edited by gbhuvanesh; 10-12-2010 at 09:15 AM.
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The precompiled interface is not a problem, simply following the prompt and let the installer compile one for your system (you will need to have the kernel sources installed).
As for the above issue with the kernel sources...
The typical sources setup for Fedora (Red Hat as well, naturally) is to have the sources installed to /usr/src/linux-<kernelversion> (where the <kernelversion> part would be replaced by the output of uname -r). The symlink mentioned (/usr/src/linux) should be there but is not crucial. The one that is crucial is found in the /lib/modules directory for the running (or compilation target) kernel.
You should find that the 'target' of the symlink /lib/modules/<kernelversion>/build points to the correct kernel sources tree, in this case /usr/src/linux-<kernelversion>.
As a specific example: /lib/modules/2.6.4-1.305/build -> /usr/src/linux-2.6.4-1.305
The kernel-source rpm should have taken care of this for you.. so it is possible you have the wrong source rpm installed. What is the output (the complete output) of rpm -q kernel kernel-source?
Last edited by LordMorgul; 04-13-2004 at 05:51 PM.
Originally posted by Forezt
kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl_37.rhfc1.at
This is the wrong source rpm for the 2174 kernel, it is distributed from the ATRPMS repository, and although it might have the correct sourcecode.. it still is not the correct matching (and official) source.
If you wish to use this kernel you should remove that kernel source (rpm -e kernel-source) then download and install: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/....nptl.i386.rpm
If you are running the 2115 kernel, then you will have to install the 2115 kernel-source before the driver can compile for it, these have to match precisely, having one kernel-source is not good enough.
Download and install: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/....nptl.i386.rpm
otoh Livna is back up with a mirror and you can use yum to get a pre-compiled nvidia rpm for your kernel version.
See http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/ for info.
This is an indication that you have another rpm process running (or yum / apt, which are using librpm). If you do not.. and you are certain of this then you may need to remove old, stale, lock files in /var/lock/rpm.
Last edited by LordMorgul; 04-20-2004 at 07:37 PM.
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