I posted this on NVIDIA's website and got no response. I updated my kernel to the latest (2.6.11.5) and tried installing the latest nvidia drivers. When I ran the shell, I got an error about missing the nvidia.ko files. Research indicated I needed to patch, so I downloaded the patch from NVIDIA and tried installing per thier instructions. However, when I ran the patch -po filename script, I got no response on the screen and no disk activity. When I press the enter key, the cursor advances one line, but no response otherwise, no error message, no disk light activity. When I press the control c keys, the prompt returns. Last time I had similar issues with a patch, the computer was waiting for input from me and I figured it out. I have no clue what the computer is waiting for this time though. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

How are you running patch?

"patch -p0 < blah.patch" would apply blah.patch.

I've had similar problems when running the patch command and was unable to resolve it. In fact, out of all the computers I tried it on it exhibited the same command you issues. This was when the 6629 version was still somewhat new.

I also let mine sit for hours with no patch applied and no activity.

If the patch command is taking that long your not using it correctly. As I said pervious, patch -p0 file.patch will not work... patch -p0 < file.patch will.

Try downgrading to 2.6.11.2 it works fine for me with the specific package you are trying to use to build the kernel module, also, I thought the command was cat /path/to/path | patch -p0 , thats how I have always patched things.

Thanks for the help, but I tried NVIDIA's 1.0-7174 driver and it worked.

Did some further testing, seems like when I upgrade my gcc compiler to version 3.4.3 and install the nvidia drivers,
I get the error. Did not matter which driver package (tried 7174 and the latest 7664). If I install the drivers then
upgrade the compiler, it works fine.