I'm having major problems installing nVidia's latest drivers on Mandrake 10.1 with the 2.6 kernel. When I try to install them, it first complains about not having a precompiled kernel interface installed... I assume that means it wants me to install the kernel-source package, so I did. Still got the same error, even specifying the location of it. Next, it complains about the rivafb module being used with my kernel, and how it conflicts with the nVidia drivers.

It then tries to build the driver, and fails. That's about as far as I get. Has anyone else been having this problem? If so, how did you fix it?

This is well known problem and there is an excellent tutorial giving the solution on this website that says it a lot better than I can:

http://ariejan.net/content/view/85/32/

Thanks for the reply, but that still doesn't help my problem of it not being able to detect that I have installed kernel-source-2.6.

Hi,

If you have a look around there are two problems. One requires changing the code as mentioned in that tutorial. The other one is just to follow what I posted at www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/232459 . This is the second common problem, and is quite easy to fix. Hope this helps.

Cheers