alright... here is the problem.

i just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.9. i just installed the tgz package off the net.. (generic kernel, headers, modules, and source)

i then went to the nvidia site (using links) and downloaded the nvidia driver.
when i went to install the driver however, it says it cant find the kernel source.

so i ran the installer with the "--kernel-source-path /usr/src/linux-2.6.9/" option and i still get the same error
i cant figure out what i'm doing wrong, and was wondering if anyone else knew how to fix it?

you should have a link " /lib/modules/2.6.9/build " that points to the sources.
( i think it's normally made by " make modules_install " ).

if you don't have it , just make it ( w. " ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.9 /lib.....etc. ).

egag

yes, thats there, and it points the right place.. should i remove the /lib/modules/2.4.26/ dir? since i deleted the old kernel and stuff?
would that be messing things up even though there is no build@ link?

here is my error:

ERROR: Unable to load tghe kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. this is likely because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files. please make sure you have installd 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.

also my nvidia-installer.log is online at: http://reapercore.com/nvidia-installer.log

Let's get some basic info. Your info shows you are running FC2 but posting in Slack forum. What distro are you running? If Slack what version? Is this one of the kernels that is in the Slack updates in current. Did you take care of the file type mkinitrd if need be? Are you certain that is the kernel you booted into?

Also seems like I remember some issues with some of the 2.6.x kernels and nvidia, have you searched this forum for similar issue?

yes... i am on slack 10, yes the kernel was from slackware-current, yes i know the kernel is booted into, because it shows 2.6.9 above the login. i just forgot to change my info to show thta i'm on slackware :P

did you build that module while running X ?
it was build ok, but loading it in the kernel gave errors.

so maybe it can't be loaded because another display-driver is already loaded.

egag

no no.. i'm in text mode. the installer wont even START while X is running

what does " modprobe nvidia " gives you. ?

egag

modprobe nvidia doesn't give any errors

type " lsmod" to check if it's loaded .
if so, it should be ok.

edit xorg.conf to use nvidia and try it......

egag

it shows its loaded... however

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 knonw processed) with 0 events remaining

log posted on http://reapercore.com/Xorg.0.log

it sais
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(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
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although it is there ?

did you reboot before doing that ?

egag

no, still have not rebooted

and i kinda cant just fall back to my kernel 2.4.26 stuff, cuz i didn't think about the problems with nvidia drivers, so i removed teh old kernel.... so as it sits right now, i'm stuck in the text mode.

maybe try " #ldconfig "

can be that the module will be found after that.

egag