mblanco2000 Posted April 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mblanco2000 Posted April 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
root_access Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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