I've installed the Nvidia drivers for my GeForce 4 ti 4200 graphics cards many times before, but know that I use Mandrake 10.1, I've run into some problems. When I run the installer I get the message;
" The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver; the
NVIDIA kernel module will still be built and installed,
but be aware that the NVIDIA driver will not be able to
function properly if the rivafb module is loaded!"
It lets me procede but after 80-85% complete it comes up and says that there was an error compiling the nvidia kernel. I'm sort of a newbie to linux (the gui stuff I can handle, but the consol I don't really understand.
Thanks for hte help ^^. Heres the install error log, since I don't have a clue what caused the install to fail, and it will probaly be more useful to you then me!
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Fri Oct 22 17:17:27 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
X 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 : /root/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. ? (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.
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build'
-> Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc".
-> Performing rivafb check.
-> Performing rivafb module check.
WARNING: Your kernel was configured to include rivafb support as
a loadable kernel module.
The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver; the
NVIDIA kernel module will still be built and installed,
but be aware that the NVIDIA driver will not be able to
function properly if the rivafb module is loaded!
-> Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean'...
rm -f -f nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv.o os-agp.o os-interfa
ce.o os-registry.o nvidia.mod.o
rm -f -f build-in.o nv-linux.o *.d .*.{cmd,flags}
rm -f -f nvidia.{o,ko,mod.{o,c}} nv_compiler.h *~
-> Building kernel module:
executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/b
uild SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build'...
Your kernel was configured to include rivafb support as
a loadable kernel module.
The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver; the
NVIDIA kernel module will still be built and installed,
but be aware that the NVIDIA driver will not be able to
function properly if the rivafb module is loaded!
*** Failed rivafb module sanity check, but continuing! ***
NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build\
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-10mdk KBUILD_VERBOSE=1\
KBUILD_CHECK= KBUILD_EXTMOD="/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-
pkg1/usr/src/nv"\
-f /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-10mdk/Makefile modules
mkdir -p /root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.tmp
_versions
make -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-10mdk/scripts/Makefile.build obj=/root/tmp/se
lfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv
echo \#define NV_COMPILER \"`cc -v 2>&1 | tail -n 1`\" > /root/tmp/selfgz886
6/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv_compiler.h
cc -Wp,-MD,/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/
.nv.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Iinclude2 -I/
usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-10mdk/include -I/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86
-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-stri
ct-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno
-unit-at-a-time -march=i686 -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-10mdk/include/asm-i386/
mach-default -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -O2 -Wdeclaration-after-stateme
nt -I/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv -Wall -
Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -W
pointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -fno-common -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-
error -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LO
OSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSI
ON=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=6111 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -UD
EBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DNV_CHANGE_PAGE_ATTR_PRESENT -DNV_CLASS
_SIMPLE_PRESENT -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME=nv -DKBUILD_MODNAME=nvidia -c -o
/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.o /root/tm
p/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c
/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In func
tion `nv_acpi_event':
/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:3697: er
ror: `PM_SAVE_STATE' undeclared (first use in this function)
/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:3697: er
ror: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:3697: er
ror: for each function it appears in.)
make[4]: *** [/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv
/nv.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/root/tmp/selfgz8866/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/us
r/src/nv] Error 2
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2
-> Error.
ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
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 .
NVIDIA drivers issue :(
