liquidzoo Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 I'm going to try recompiling my kernel soon. I have read several places that I need to reinstall my nvidia drivers after I do this. My question is: Do I have to uninstall the nvidia drivers before I recompile the kernel? If so, do I just issue the rpm -e command? Also, do I have to recompile both the nvidia kernel and the glx module or just one or the other? This is the first time I have done this, so I want to know what I'm going to have to do for display drivers before I start. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 You will have to recompile both nvidia src rpms. As for removing the existing i don't know You know that there are new nvidia drivers released just recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 When you're ready to boot to the new kernel, do so to init 3; urpme NVIDIA will remove them both. Then rebuild and install the new. X isn't starting for some people with the new drivers, and that's with rebuilding them as well. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...1651&highlight= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 14, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 Thanks for the info, I think I fubar'd my kernel when I tried to recompile it last night. That'll teach me to start these things at 3am. I'm going to have to try to rebuild it from init 3 becaust I don't want to try to start x this way. I can't seem to get the old kernel to boot either. I don't want to reinstall, I want to get this figured out without having to resort to a reinstall. I was getting some weird errors during boot. I didn't catch them, but I think I disabled something that I shouldn't have. At least I still have the default config files, so I can rebuild from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 Are you using this with an mdk? I ask because of the importance of make mrproper http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/mdkkernel.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 14, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 I did issue the make mrproper command, just before I did the make xconfig (the only difference between what I did and DOlson's tutorial), but I did something with automount and ipv4(?) and it's giving me all kinds of errors when I boot. I'm going to try to get it fixed; hopefully I will be able to do it without reinstalling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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