I am having the rivafb problem with installing the nvidia drivers, the latest one of course. I am running Mandrake 10.1 Official and get the Warning message when trying to install the nVidia driver. Well, the warning is something to take note of. I simply want to recomplie the kernel without the rivafb driver. I am a bit of a noob to Linux but have gotton just so far. Following is a list of commands I have been through sucessfully without the rivafb. Please complete what I need to finish the recompile.

Note: Using LILO bootloader.


make menuconfig (disabled rivafb)
make dep
make clean
make zImage
make modules

That is as far as I have gotten...


Thanks everyone, cheers

if you use a recent kernel (2.6 series) then you can run it simply like this (this first step is the menuconfig above, so you know where we start):

make menuconfig (disabled rivafb)
make clean
make all
make modules_install

and you're set. then you get the following files (you sit in the source directory's root at the moment, where you did this):

System.map
vmlinux
arch/i386/boot/bzImage

now you simply copy the files to your /boot (do NOT overwrite existing files; instead, rename these new files a bit like adding -2 to the end of the filename or something so they do not overwrite anything) and after that edit your LILO's config file. locate the section that tells about the current kernel, copy it and paste below the first section (so now you have two identical sections of a kernel and boot options), and then simply alter the lower section so that it points to your newly copied files. save, run lilo (this is important when your booting has changed!) and reboot.

you could have overwritten the older kernel files, and editing LILO's config would have been unnecessary, but this way you're safe - if your new kernel refuses to boot (kernel panic or something) for some reason, you can always reboot the older kernel that still sits in your LILO. nice after you have tested that your newer kernel works, you can safely remove the older kernel from /boot and LILO's config (remember to always re-run lilo after changing the boot config, so lilo recognizes the changes).

Well, the recompile of the kernel went fine. The nVidia 6629 driver installs without Warning or Error. The downside is... The driver still does not work.


UPDATE!!

I was able to get the nvidia driver to work, here is how I did it after the kernel was recompiled without 'rivafb'.

First I uninstalled the driver >nvidia-installer --uninstall

Then reinstalled the driver for my kernel >sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run --kernel-name=2.6.8.1-12mdk

Finally edited the 'xorg.conf' to add the nvidia driver


That's it! Thanks for your help recompiling the kernel

Well, it was good while it lasted... It seems when I reboot the system it has a problem loading the nvidia kernel module, as before. The problem is fixed by reinstalling the driver. How can I make this permanant so the driver loads correctly at boot time

Do #7 on aus9's instructions.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=266084

Must do that, or what you describe will happen on newer 2.6 kernels.

I'm having the same problem, disabled riva, recompiled, reinstalled the nvidia driver. It worked once, I started back up now, getting the old error. Changed the modprobe file too by adding nvidia to the end, no dice...hmm

Edit:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...06#post1351406

jfi's 2 lines of code there in that script solved it. No idea what it but hey it works

Lakota,

Adding the line 'nvidia' to /etc/modprobe.preload did the trick. It seems the nvidia-installer adds a line to the file as 'nvidia-agp' but it seems not to work.


Thanks for your assitance