Allright I followed : http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia...Configuration/ that tutorial on installing Nvidia drivers for my TNT 2 16mb, and I get to the part of installing the Kernel and GLX stuff. I have the kernel for linux installed and I get this error (or group of errors) :



[root@localhost NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180]# make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include
cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE
-D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -mcmodel=kernel -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=4180 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNV_64_BITS -DNVCPU_X86_64 -I. -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c
cc1: code model `kernel' not supported in the 32 bit mode
In file included from nv-linux.h:83,
from nv.c:14:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/highmem.h: In function `bh_kmap':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/highmem.h:20: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic
nv.c: In function `nv_agp_translate_address':
nv.c:2756: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
make: *** [nv.o] Error 1


I'm using Redhat 8 and have installed everything else on that tutorial. I have heard something about needing to exit X to do this or something like that.. I'm a total newbie when it comes to this. Any ideas or help would be of great help!

Are you in X during installation, I mean is the Graphical User Interface [aka GUI] running during the installation???
Well you need to exit X, open up an Xterm, anf become root with su command, and issue
/sbin/init 3
this will shut the X down, and from there you must install drivers, good luck

Yeah ok i needed to exit X probably. I'll try that and tell you what happens.

Does pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 not stop X then?

not exactly it just switches you over to a virtual console, but X is still runing on usually 7th "console" CTRL-ALT-F7, and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE won't kick you off X either on a regular RH/Mandy setup with KDM/GDM on boot up

Allright, I tried to do it while out of X system and it still did the same error. Any other ideas?