nVidia drivers for FX5200

Adrohak · 12-25-2004, 12:41 PM

I got a GeForce FX5200 for Christmas. I want to set it up to work with the newest nVidia drivers for the best performance, but when I try to install the newest nVidia drivers, I get an error about rivafb. In other posts about rivafb, I saw that people said to "just ignore it" and the like; I would love to do that, but after the error, the installation exits and refers me to /var/log/nvidia-installer.log. The output of said file is as follows:

Code:

[slackbox:root /var/log] cat nvidia-installer.log
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Sun Dec 26 02:20:36 2004

option status:
  license pre-accepted    : false
  update                  : false
  force update            : false
  expert                  : false
  uninstall               : false
  driver info             : false
  no precompiled interface: false
  no ncurses color        : false
  query latest driver ver : false
  OpenGL header files     : false
  no questions            : false
  silent                  : false
  no backup               : false
  kernel module only      : false
  sanity                  : false
  add this kernel         : false
  no runlevel check       : false
  no network              : false
  no ABI note             : false
  no RPMs                 : false
  force tls               : (not specified)
  force compat32 tls      : (not specified)
  X install prefix        : /usr/X11R6
  OpenGL install prefix   : /usr
  compat32 install prefix : (not specified)
  installer install prefix: /usr
  utility install prefix  : /usr
  kernel name             : (not specified)
  kernel include path     : (not specified)
  kernel source path      : (not specified)
  kernel output path      : (not specified)
  kernel install path     : (not specified)
  proc mount point        : /proc
  ui                      : (not specified)
  tmpdir                  : /tmp
  ftp mirror              : ftp://download.nvidia.com
  RPM file list           : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
   ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
   rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
   this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
   your kernel.
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.4.22/build'
-> Performing CC test with CC="cc".
-> Performing rivafb check.
ERROR: Your kernel was configured to include rivafb support!

       The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver, please
       reconfigure your kernel and *disable* rivafb support, then
       try installing the NVIDIA kernel module again.
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.

I'm running Slackware 9.1, kernel 2.4.22. Can anyone help me out?

Joey.Dale · 12-25-2004, 12:59 PM

try as root

Code:

rmmod rivafb

-Joey

Adrohak · 12-25-2004, 01:18 PM

Code:

[slackbox:root /home/cowboy] rmmod rivafb
rmmod: module rivafb is not loaded

Adrohak · 12-25-2004, 02:12 PM

I just used the -x option with the nVidia drivers (extract only); the packages installed properly but warned about the nvidia/rivafb "kernel tainting." I ran startx as a user, but it still did not load the nvidia drivers (I have XF86Config configured to work with nvidia, but apparently the nvidia-rivafb collision stopped it from loading the nvidia drivers). Now, though, I can't even run glxgears with my old configuration:

Code:

[slackbox ~] glxgears
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual.

But the glx module is called from XF86Config:

Code:

# This loads the GLX module
    Load       "glx"

Adrohak · 12-26-2004, 01:51 PM

I compiled a seperate kernel, and have the nVidia drivers working in that, but I cannot do much of anything else in that kernel: my NIC doesn't work, my sound card doesn't work, etc. (I've never recompiled my kernel before; I must have screwed up somewhere.)

BeatRyder · 01-07-2005, 03:06 AM

make sure you comment out the

Code:

Load "dri'

and the

Code:

Section "DRI"
      mode 0666
EndSection

The second one will be at the very bottom of your xorg.conf