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Nvidia 190.42 driver installation fails with custom kernel

Hello all,

I'm at my wits end here. I have tried to install the newest Nvidia drivers (190.42) and it keeps giving me an error and aborting the installation.

I custom built my current kernel (2.6.31) from kernel.org. I have all the source files still installed. The system is stable and things tend to work correctly. (other programs compile)

here is the output form the Nvidia error file. I have tried using the --kernel-source-path= option and still no joy? How would I go about correcting this problem?
Thanks in advanced.
Moch5.0

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ERROR: If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure

      you either have configured kernel sources matching your

      kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed

      on your system.

      

      If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure

      you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel

      installed on your system. If you specified a separate

      output directory using either the "KBUILD_OUTPUT" or

      the "O" KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this

      directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with

      the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.

      

      Depending on where and how the kernel sources (or the

      kernel headers) were installed, you may need to specify

      their location with the SYSSRC environment variable or

      the equivalent nvidia-installer command line 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.

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Originally Posted by Moch5.0 (Post 3739249)

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ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file

      '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.

What did the log file say?

The nvidia-installer looks for the links 'build'
and / or 'source' in /lib/modules/´uname -r´

build and source must be links to /usr/src/´uname -r´ .

This is one strange thing I encountered in the past. If you run

make clean or make sysclean

after building a kernel, sometimes nvidia driver gives this error. Try to build the kernel against the stock kernel once, and if possible, re-build the kernel and try compiling nvidia driver once. See if that works.

I don't have a solution - but it is doing the same thing to me. My sources are properly linked in /lib/modules and in /usr/src .

The 185.18.36 driver installs fine on all my custom kernels.

jedi_sith_fears,

Thanks for the info. I'll try that and see if it works.

Hello all,

Just wanted to say that a new kernel "recompile" did the trick. The driver installed and I have a new kernel version (2.6.31.5)

Thanks,
Moch5.0

Nvidia arguments

If I am correct, then the issue here was that the Nvidia installer couldn't find the kernel source code. So for the benefit of anyone else you might wander in, there are several command line arguments that can be run with the Nvidia installer.

Run the following to see a list:

Code:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-XXX.XX.XX-pkg2.run --advanced-options

One of the arguments is to tell the installer where the source code is for the kernel that is running. For example, I keep my kernel source in /home/brian/kernel. So the last time I built the Nvidia driver for my custom kernel, the command I used was:

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NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-XXX.XX.XX-pkg2.run --kernel-source-path=/home/brian/kernel/linux-2.6.30.5/