Nvidia Driver

[mblanco2000]

Well I finally got it working this morning. I installed the driver with the -ane option.

 

Then went and edited the /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 file like the Readme file explained.

 

So now my laptop can boot up fine and load the right drivers. Thanks alot.

[mblanco2000]

I now have a docking station at work and when I boot up on it. I get errors and it will only boot to run level 3.

 

Do I need to create a docked profile or something like that. I am a long time Windows user (please forgive me)

[aRTee]

It has likely not loaded the nvidia driver/module.

 

When in runlevel 3, log on as root and do

modprobe nvidia

telinit 5

 

and if that works, do

echo "modprobe nvidia" >> /etc/modprobe.preload

as root.

[root_access]

This is the problem solution:

 

It will not build because the kernel sources is for a different kernel revision than the one u have installed...

 

1. download kernel-source package via URPMI

2. do a uname -r to see the current installed kernel revision.

3. check that the file /usr/src/linux is a symbolic link to the same kernel that uname -r returns.

if so, u can follow the procedures in the NVIDIA readme file, and compile the kernel module.

 

IMPORTANT!!! :

 

NB! a kernel 2.6.3-4mdk is installed with some Community editions of MDK 10, while the kernel-source from the ftp mirrors installs 2.6.3-8mdk.

 

This will not work!

 

Update to 2.6.3-8 kernel first with URPMI kernel, and choose linux 2.6.3-8 kernel.

reboot, and install the NVIDIA driver.

if so, u can follow the procedures in the NVIDIA readme file, and compile the kernel module.

 

It will now build a module for your kernel.

To be sure u can also do the following (as root offcourse):

 

export SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux

run the NVIDIA installer.run file with option :

--kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux

 

 

BACKUP BEFORE KERNEL UPGRADE.