nvidia driver install problems

HellBound · 08-28-2002, 12:18 PM

when I try to installing the new drivers which I did and edited that file it said the wya its suppose to but now I get the error:
NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA failed to load the NVdriver kernel module.
Is the nvchooser giving me the wrong drivers or something I checked lots of times and its the right drivers i installed but I still get this error. I use red hat 7.3 anyone know how to get the drivers working so I can startx ?

neo77777 · 08-28-2002, 12:25 PM

Was X running when you attempeted to install drivers? You should exit out of X.
If everything fails get the src.rpm for Nvidia kernel and GLX drivers and compile it with
rpm -e NVIDIA_kernel NVIDIA_GLX
rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-yada.yada.src.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-yada.yada.src.rpm
rpm -ihv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA*

HellBound · 08-28-2002, 12:36 PM

Nope X was not working when I installed the drivers I did it all in text mode. I even used pico to edit the file that you edit to get nvidias drivers to supposedly work.

HellBound · 08-28-2002, 12:43 PM

When i try to do rpm -e "nvidia file" it says there not installed.
I had to reformat a linux partition jsut yesterday cuz the same thing happened and i couldn't get them uninstalled. Any idea for a quick fix so I can atleast get into x or even beter a way to get the dang nvidia kernel to work.

neo77777 · 08-28-2002, 12:48 PM

How do you use rpm -e ?
rpm -e NVIDIA_kernel-yada.yada.rpm ?
You shouldn't do this because rpm -e works on rpm database which contains the name of the packages not the files it came in.
rpm -e NVIDIA_kernel
is the correct syntax

HellBound · 08-28-2002, 12:55 PM

oh ok my bad :P
thx I'am gonna go try that.

HellBound · 08-28-2002, 01:04 PM

so whats next now?
you said about downloading the source files?
Can you give me exact instructions with every detail plzz cuz I'am new at linux(if you couldn't already tell)

acid_kewpie · 08-28-2002, 01:10 PM

the EXACT instructions are on the nvidia.com website, READ THEM!

neo77777 · 08-28-2002, 01:14 PM

GLX source rpm : http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_4...0-2960.src.rpm

Kernel source rpm:
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_4...0-2960.src.rpm

HellBound · 08-28-2002, 01:26 PM

when I try the first thing it says to do I get
Install:cannot stat 'NVdriver': no such file or directry
Error: Bad exit stats from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.21808 (%install)

neo77777 · 08-28-2002, 01:44 PM

How do you do it?
It must be
cd /where/you/downloaded/them
rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960.src.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2960.src.rpm
then
rpm -ihv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA*

HellBound · 08-28-2002, 01:48 PM

I did that and i still got the error.
Any other ideas?

HellBound · 08-28-2002, 04:14 PM

*bump*

BehMershal · 08-29-2002, 10:00 AM

Red hat just refused to accept my geforece4 no matter what I did....so I feel your pain.

I use mandrake 8.2 now, and it runs it as a generic geforce2 (ddr). It works, so theres no way I'm gonna dare touch it!!

spooge · 08-29-2002, 10:55 AM

i just installed my ti4600, the other day. 1st thing i did was reinstall nvidia kernel/drivers. it ran great !, fps in q3 were popping up to 400 @1280 res. i shut down the box that night( for some dumb reason), and when i restarted the next day, i got a prompt saying the old gf2 was missing, and do i want to discard the old config. so like a confident linux newb i click'd the discard button. now i have no X. i'll report back today on how i get it back up. maybe it will shed some light to the gf4.