Help with Ubuntu nForce Drivers
Only experience interacting with linux/UNIX is a fair bit with FreeBSD, but never configured X, only ran network-related services. Ports tree spoiled me rotten.
Now trying Ubuntu Linux, and installed (not very difficult) quite successfully. Nice little distro, everything seems to work out-of-the-box, except the option to update packages during install, which crashes X (on that particular daily release, anyway.) Now I want to install nForce motherboard drivers (I'll try radeon 9200 drivers after this is working!) As per nVidia's instructions, i did: sh NFORCE-superlongfilename_version_blah-blah.run which brings up a nice little text-based mini-GUI, but then... "No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface." and then... "ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed 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." followed by... "ERROR: Installation of the audio driver has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-nforce-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at (nvidiawebsite)" I'm guessing that this is a path issue, but I have no idea where the kernel sources are suppposed to be, or how to compile/decompile if I need to. I know this is probably easy to solve, but a noob has to start somewhere. Thanks in advance. |
Since it's debian based ...
Try a Code:
dpkg -l '*kernel*' installed ... Cheers, Tink |
code:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un kernel-image-2 <none> (no description available) un kernel-patch-b <none> (no description available) un kernel-patch-d <none> (no description available) un kernel-patch-e <none> (no description available) ii linux-kernel-h 2.5.999-test7- Linux Kernel Headers for development un linux-kernel-l <none> (no description available) un nvidia-kernel- <none> (no description available) ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.6111+1ubun NVIDIA binary kernel module common files un nvidia-kernel- <none> (no description available) That's the output...what am I looking for?? |
You do have the kernel headers, but not the kernel source.
nVidia's driver therefore refuses to compile on your machine. Remedy: apt-get the kernel-source that matches your kernel. Cheers, Tink |
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