Guest hmmaniac12 Posted November 13, 2002 Report Share Posted November 13, 2002 I have a 17" widescreen iMac with a GeForce 4 MX. I installed 8.2 PPC using install-text, none of the other install options would work. install-novideo only brought up a bluescreen with an X in the middle of it. When I try to boot X, I get a black screen. I tried going to the console and installing the nVidia drivers, but nVidia seems to have drivers for every 8.2 except PPC. How can I get it to work? Sorry if this has been asked before, I've looked on the entire forum and can't find anything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 13, 2002 Report Share Posted November 13, 2002 Have you tried d-loading the nvidia source rpms and rebuilding them for your kernel ? There are plenty of tips on how to do this both here and on nvidia's site. If you try this, and get stuck, post again, we will walk you through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hmmaniac12 Posted November 13, 2002 Report Share Posted November 13, 2002 Alright, I tried rebuilding the sources. The kernel gets me some errors: install: cannot stat `NVdriver': No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79094 (% install) The GLX compiled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 13, 2002 Report Share Posted November 13, 2002 You don't really need to rebuild the glx, any one will do. As far as the nvidia kernel goes, sounds like you have some stuff missing needed to rebuild. Do you have the right version of gcc installed for your running kernel ? kernel sources etc ? I don't know how much you know, so excuse me if im stating the obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hmmaniac12 Posted November 13, 2002 Report Share Posted November 13, 2002 Don't worry about stating the obvious; I know next to nothing. I know basic stuff, but not much else. Anyway, I have no clue if my versions are correct. How can I check? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 You need the rpmbuild package. The same kernel source version as your running kernel The kernel headers gcc The above should be no problem to find/get, at any mdk mirror. To check which version of gcc your kernel was built with, in a term type: cat /proc/version One of our users (DOlson) here has written a tutorial on rebuilding nvidia kernels, it does assume you have the above installed, this is the link: http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 Not having the kernel-source will get you this error. install: cannot stat `NVdriver': No such file or directoryerror: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79094 (% install) The rpmbuild pkg's actual name is rpm-build [bvc9@localhost bvc9]$ rpm -q rpm-buildrpm-build-4.0.4-19mdk this is needed for the rpmbuild --rebuild command. Use it, as it's replacing rpm --rebuild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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