Sarge and Nvidia problem
heya guys, i am trying to get Nvidia drivers to work on Sarge and i keep getting problems :/
i have a tnt2 generic card in my IBM machine. i have easily and sucsusfully installed the drivers on woodie many times on the same machine (bf24 install and apt-get bf24 headers) problem is after dist upgradding to sarge on a fresh woodie install and installing x windows server after the fact and upgradding to the newest gcc and g++ through aptget from the sarge/testing sources (the new xwindows server from testing has many more options which i left blank like card hex bus value, and left the card identifier as generic) i dl the headers to bf24 (kernel im using from the bf24 woodie base install) and "--add-this-kernel" in the nvidia installer and then run the custom nvidia driver, it installs fine. but then after properly exiting XF86Config-4 (commenting out dri, glconfig and adding "nvidia" and commenting out "nv" as the driver) i get many errors starting xwindows and it crashes to command again. something about a problem with modules. (ill get something more exact in a bit when i get back home to test it again) think it said something about unregistered or unasined. would it have something to do with the gcc version? and kernel version(though i did not get an error apon instalation) (i even tried with a normal fresh sarge install with the sarge default kernel and i got an error just trying to compile it) worst come to worst im gonna reinstall woodie, compile and install nvidia then upgrade to sarge. if that still doesnt work then i know it has something to do with the new xwindows options :/ any help would be greatly appreaciated guys :) -Zaskar |
The gcc version that was used to compile the kernel should also be used to compile the nvidia-module you want to put into it. So if you want to use sarge you should first install nvidia before doing a dist-upgrade. Or you should compile a new kernel yourself (then it will be compiled with gcc version of your current Sarge installation).
I had this problem once, but I already got an error on trying to install the nvidia drivers. So maybe your problem is different. This is only a suggestion... Good luck! (ps: try to search the nvidia linux forum, I don't know the url anymore though) |
if you want to attempt to install the driver with an older version of gcc, just do the following
Code:
CC=gcc32 ./nvidia-installer |
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