Installing NVIDIA drivers on Mandrake 10.0

[f34r7h1s]

Hey,

I recently switched from mandrake 9.2 to mandrake 10.0. After finaly getting the internet to work (by means of adding "noapic" to my lilo.conf file if this may be relivent some how to my issue) i realized that my nvidia driver will not install here is what i have done...

 

CLose X server

./NVIDIA......run

accept licence agreement

then it says it cant find a precompiled kernel and looks for it on the net, it cant find it and then tries to compile its own... and i get this message

 

 

"Unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module file name"

"Make:***[select_makefile] Error 1"

 

i have installed all the kernel RPMS off my install cd and still cant figure it out.

 

on an unrelated note, what is the diffrence between "sh" and "./" (i havent found one)

thanx for your help

[liquidzoo]

I honestly believe that this is caused by not having the kernel-source installed. You need the full source, not the new kernel-source-stripped

 

btw, what drivers are you installing? Are you sure they are optimized for the 2.6 kernel? That could give you that error. If you haven't already, download the newest drivers from the nvidia website and give them a try.

[f34r7h1s]

How would i install the Full Source? I installed "Kernel source" from the install cd but i dont know, im a n00b...

[william]

type "uname -r"(as root) in terminal in order to check your kernel version, you will have to install a kernel-source that matches your kernel version. (you can use the software management tool in mandrake control center to search and install the source)

[root@poseidon william]# uname -r
2.6.3-7mdk

Here is my output showing that kernel and kernel-souce has the same version.

root@poseidon william]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-2.6.3.7mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-source-stripped-2.6.3-7mdk

 

Good luck.

Edited April 7, 2004 by william

[f34r7h1s]

Ok... i did what you said, and the output is this:

for the uname -r

2.6.3-4mdksecure

 

and for the rpm grep one:

kernel-enterprise-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-smp-2.4.25.2mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-source-2.6.3-4mdk

kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.25.2mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-secure-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-2.4.25.2mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-enterprise-2.4.25.2mdk-1-1mdk

kernel2.4-marcelo-2.4.25-1mdk

kernel-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-smp-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

 

i dont see the kernel source stripped and dont see anything in the package manager... i installed everything having to do with the kernal then.

[tyme]

holy....

 

you gots way too many kernels installed! i assume you only use one kernel, as in you only have on boot option for linux, right?

 

use urpme to remove these:

 

kernel-enterprise-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-smp-2.4.25.2mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.25.2mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-2.4.25.2mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-enterprise-2.4.25.2mdk-1-1mdk

kernel2.4-marcelo-2.4.25-1mdk

kernel-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

kernel-smp-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk

[f34r7h1s]

lol yeah... someone else told me to install everything that says Kernel... Thanx, ill do that tonight and write back with the results

[foreverlost]

I had the same problem until I installed

 

kernel-source-stripped-2.6.3-7mdk

 

And then the nvidia installer was able to create the module. I already had the non-stripped sources.

 

ForeverLost

[arthurking]

Fearthis,

I once had kernel-secure on my machine and holy cow! was that a nightmare. Any wonder you had trouble getting net connected!

I think that is the point of the 'secure' kernel.

If you don't desperately need such security, uninstall that kernel or don't boot it, and just run plain 'ol 'kernel2.6.x' or if you have >1G of RAM maybe '....up-4GB'

Aparently this has some benefits of which I fail to see, but Oh well!