Nvidia driver install not working
I am using Mandrake 10.1 community. I recently got around to trying to install the drivers off the Nvidia web site. I did everything fine, was not running X, etc, but got an error message called : "Could not find file nvidia.ko", the install quits and the drivers are not installed, what is the matter?
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read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Exactly what did you do? Could you please state exactly which commands you typed, and the output you got in return? Running things from the emacs shell makes it easier to copy-paste--if you know how to use those tools already, that is. --Jonas |
Ok, sorry,
I open up the terminal as my normal user, type su, and get to root. I swiched to runlevel 3 by typing init 3. I then whent and changed the following settings in my xorg.conf file: changed driver name 'nv' to driver name 'nvidia' I exited vi(the editor that I was using) and saved the changes. I whent to where the .run file that I downloaded from nvidia.com that contains the installer for the drivers for my card. I type ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7664-pkg1.run to run the installer. I have the source files for the kernel, and the installer sees that and proceeds to build the proper module for my kernel. The percentage bar goes to 100%, then tells me that it was missing the file 'nvidia.ko' and that my kernel might not be built with the proper files, then quits. |
if you have updatedb'ed recently, then
$ locate nvidia.ko otherwise, use a plain $ find / -name 'nvidia.ko' --Just to check that the file is there. in the following, take NV.run to mean the dot-run file with a long and awkward name ;) If the .run is a shell script ($ file NV.run), could you try running it like ($ bash -x NV.run) and posting the ouput (where reasonable)? --Jonas |
find dosen't find anything, and I can't run the shell script while X is running
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--Jonas |
did you read the README? there is a section on common problems:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...664/README.txt did you build your own kernel? if not, are you sure you have the source/headers installed? also, check out the Linux forum at www.nvnews.net - tons of posts on nvidia install problems |
thanks, I'le look those over carefully...
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neither the nvidia knowlege base, or the nvidia Howto have any information concerning my problem. is there anything else you could suggest?
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seems you should find something between the readme and the nvnews forums... what is the exact error message? did you check the installer log file? maybe try a google search on the exact error message.
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In order to correctly build the kernel driver for nVIDIA, installed kernel sources must match your running kernel.
That means the correct source must be installed and it must be configured to match your running kernel Mandrake 10.1 community is a 2.6.8 kernel. According to this: http://www.speculation.org/garrick/kernelprep.html kernel sources and kernel prep are a little different in 10.1 than in previous Mandrake releases. Quote:
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