I made the assumption that the YOU update will not work because he stated he could not compile with his current kernel. No matter how many times you run YOU it will not work. You have to do it the hard way. Considering that all the advise here was to change this and change that, the most prudent way to approach this problem is to start from a clean slate, thus installation of the default kernel.

Download the Nvidia Shell script and run it the way I outlined and your driver will start up.

Like I said I am not sure why the kernel reject this driver like that. Strange Strange Strange.

i managed to successfully install the drivers . and when i go into init 5 from init 3 . i see the nvidia splash screen . all fine. but when i reboot the system i get no graphical display . instead it goes to a console session. the xorg.cong device section driver back to 'nv' it manages to boot back inot graphical display??
wats the problem???

If you can type startx or kdm successfully at the prompt, then it sounds like a problem with grub or lilo. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...w01LILOandGRUB

If you can not start your x server. There is still a problem with the driver. Can you start the x server?

i fixed it . thanks anyway.
u have to add the following script to /etc/rc.d/boot.local .

code:

error() {
echo "$(basename $0): fatal error, $1 failed"
exit 1
}

if [ ! -c /dev/.devfsd ]; then
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
node="/dev/nvidia$i"
rm -f $node
mknod $node c 195 $i || error "mknod \"$node\""
chmod 0666 $node || error "chmod \"$node\""
done
node="/dev/nvidiactl"
rm -f $node
mknod $node c 195 255 || error "mknod \"$node\""
chmod 0666 $node || error "chmod \"$node\""
fi

if [ -d /etc/udev/devices ]; then
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
node="/etc/udev/devices/nvidia$i"
rm -f $node
mknod $node c 195 $i || error "mknod \"$node\""
chmod 0666 $node || error "chmod \"$node\""
done
node="/etc/udev/devices/nvidiactl"
rm -f $node
mknod $node c 195 255 || error "mknod \"$node\""
chmod 0666 $node || error "chmod \"$node\""
fi



If you unpack the nVidia source code you will find that this script is in ./usr/src/nv/makedevices.sh

I used the 7174 version driver.

after this it works fine