nvidia upgrade *removing old kernals*

subservant · 02-24-2003, 04:50 AM

hey again

I was trying to attempt to re install drivers for my video card when I did the Red hat 8.0 update to the -8.0 kernal and it really messed my nv drivers.

glxinfo shows nothing now as well as glxgears

how can I remove the old nividia kernals and try again installing the older vershion that worked in the first place. The whole system seems to be in place execpt for the nivida driver . I must have repeated the process a couple of times to no avail.

thx

acid_kewpie · 02-24-2003, 05:30 AM

what are you doing to install the drivers? when you install a new kernel it will need to have the nvidia drivers installed anew.

subservant · 02-24-2003, 09:39 AM

I initally used the tar files and when that wasent showing results I tried the rpms.

Thorin · 02-24-2003, 07:41 PM

Every time your kernel changes, the NVIDIA drivers have to be reinstalled. If you're using the tarball, all you have to do is cd into the nvidia_kernel dir and type make install again. If the driver was already loading at boot time before you upgraded the kernel, it shoud still work without you needing to change anything.

Try compiling the kernel module from source again and post the results (error messages, sucess).

subservant · 02-24-2003, 07:53 PM

I just coped out and did a fresh reinstall.

it seem to work and now I know what to do I had my system back up anb running with gnome as the window manager this time and it works correctly again.

I was doing a lot of weird stuff and quite possibaly I did a command or 2 that my system didnt take too well.

the install was so fast it really didnt take too long senes I have the majority of my music backed up on CD and papers on disk so I can redo my linux partition as many times as I want too.