mblanco2000 Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 I searched on Nvidia drivers on this forum and found alot but not too much to answer my question. Hardware: Dell Laptop Latitude C810 NV11 Geforce2 Go I am running MDK 10 CE and the driver I have for the video card is: Module: Card:NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) The resolution looks decent but not real crisp and then when I play with the resolution from 1600x1200 to something less like 1400x1050 and I test that in XFdrake the whole screen shrinks and a black border goes around it. I have to have the monitor setting to "Flat Panel 1400x1050" for it to display on the entire screen otherwise I get that black border. Everything is just a bit too small right now. So since I was using a "generic" driver I assumed I needed to get the Nvidia driver. I got it and ran the installer but it errored out on me. Here is the error log: -> License accepted. -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes) -> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site; this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for your kernel. ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' commandline option. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. Can someone please help and let me know if I do or do not need to install this driver. Thanks MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 You have to install the kernel source of the kernel you are running, so on the console/konsole/xterm, do: su (give root password) urpmi kernel-source then try again. BTW for more info, read my website, just use the included google search with the search string 'nvidia driver' or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technonoid Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 One option is to install the kernel sources for the kernel your using. Then rerun the nvidia install. Tech Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mblanco2000 Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 aRTEE which one is your website. I could not find it directly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technonoid Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/ Its in his sig... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mblanco2000 Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 I tried to run urpmi kernel-source and it had a few dependicies which was not a big deal but the kernel-source it was trying to install apparently was not on the site that urpmi has been set up to use. Here is the output error which will also show the ftp server I have set it up to use. root@mblanco-lin home]# urpmi kernel-source To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (186 MB): gcc-3.3.2-6mdk.i586 kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk.i586 libgpm1-1.20.1-10mdk.i586 libgpm1-devel-1.20.1-10mdk.i586 libncurses5-devel-5.3-1.20040125.4mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) Y ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0 ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu//pub/mandrakelinux...3-7mdk.i586.rpm ...retrieving failed: curl: (19) Given file does not exist installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gcc-3.3.2-6mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgpm1-devel-1.20.1-10mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/libncurses5-devel-5.3-1.20040125.4mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed: libgpm1 = 1.20.1-10mdk is needed by libgpm1-devel-1.20.1-10mdk Installation failed, some files are missing: ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu//pub/mandrakelinux...3-7mdk.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu//pub/mandrakelinux...-10mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database I also issued this commnand to determine the kernel verison: [root@mblanco-lin home]# kernelversion 2.6 Shouldn't it be a longer number or something? Is there another ftp site that I can use to get these packages that someone knows of? MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mblanco2000 Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 I was able to get the Kernel Source RPM it was asking for. No worries I just found it on another RPM site and downloaded it individually and moved on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mblanco2000 Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 I was able to install kernel-source but I noticed this: [root@mblanco-lin mblanco]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk kernel-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk Shouldn't these two be the same versions? Again after I installed kernel-source I tried to run [root@mblanco-lin mblanco]# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run Here is the error log this time: Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface -> License accepted. -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes) -> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site; this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for your kernel. -> Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux' -> Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc". ERROR: Unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module filename. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. Thanks for the help in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 yes, they need to be the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mblanco2000 Posted April 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 I am unable to find the kernel-source to match the kernel that I am running. which is 2.6.3.4 I have searched google and alot of other sites. I am a newbie can someone pleae help out. MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 You should be running the 2.6.3-7 kernel anyway. So, download the rpm and install it. It is really fairly simple.(Famous last words. How good are you at breaking things?) The original kernel had some issues and was replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/...drake/9.2/RPMS/ I know it's in a 9.2 dir but that's ok. Kernel is the kernel. How did I find it? http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/2/simple/2 there's also http://rpmfind.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mblanco2000 Posted April 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 Well I found the right kernel-source hell it was on CD 3. What a dope I feel like now. [root@mblanco-lin mblanco]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk kernel-source-2.6.3-4mdk So I tried to run: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run when i do I get the same error message: Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface -> License accepted. -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes) So I answer yes and it just sits there. Do I need to rebuild the rpm database? If so how do i do that in MDK 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 first do ya have the latest from nvidia.com for the 2.6 kernel? second, try sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run -ane and hit enter for all the prompts a -agree to the license agreement and do not show it n -no precompiled drivers e -expert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sttroopers Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes) So I answer yes and it just sits there. Hit "no". It should then build it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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