Guest jlarter Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Hi there everyone! This is my first time posting here, and I hope that someone can help me out.. I've installed the NVIDIA drivers before, and have never had any major problems. I've also used them under my current kernel (2.6.3-15) and although I had a few small issues, everything worked fine. Now i'm trying to install the new nvidia drivers that were released on aug 5th 2004, and I can't seem to get anywhere with it. I've made sure that the source for my kernel is installed but i'm getting no where... it also says that rivafb is installed, but i've done lsmod|grep rivafb and searched in the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules and there's nothing about rivafb there... I'm running mandrake 10.. can anyone help? here's a clip from my nvidia-install.log nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Wed Aug 11 13:54:53 2004 option status: license pre-accepted : false update : false force update : false expert : false uninstall : false driver info : false no precompiled interface: false no ncurses color : false query latest driver ver : false OpenGL header files : false no questions : false silent : false X install prefix : /usr/X11R6 OpenGL install prefix : /usr Installer install prefix: /usr kernel source path : (not specified) kernel install path : (not specified) proc mount point : /proc ui : (not specified) tmpdir : /root/tmp ftp site : ftp://download.nvidia.com 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: '/lib/modules/2.6.3-15mdk/build' -> Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc". -> Performing rivafb check. -> Performing rivafb module check. WARNING: Your kernel was configured to include rivafb support as a loadable kernel module. The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver; the NVIDIA kernel module will still be built and installed, but be aware that the NVIDIA driver will not be able to function properly if the rivafb module is loaded! -> Cleaning kernel module build directory. executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean'... rm -f -f nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv.o os-agp.o os-interfa ce.o os-registry.o nvidia.mod.o rm -f -f build-in.o nv-linux.o *.d .*.{cmd,flags} rm -f -f nvidia.{o,ko,mod.{o,c}} nv_compiler.h *~ -> Building kernel module: executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.3-15mdk/bui ld SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.3-15mdk/build'... Your kernel was configured to include rivafb support as a loadable kernel module. The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver; the NVIDIA kernel module will still be built and installed, but be aware that the NVIDIA driver will not be able to function properly if the rivafb module is loaded! *** Failed rivafb module sanity check, but continuing! *** NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... make -C /lib/modules/2.6.3-15mdk/build \ KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 \ KBUILD_CHECK= -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk/Makefile modules Using /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk as source for kernel if [ -h /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk/include/asm -o -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15 mdk/.config ]; then \ echo " /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk is not clean, please run 'make mrproper' ";\ echo " in the '/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk' directory.";\ /bin/false; \ fi; /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk is not clean, please run 'make mrproper' in the '/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk' directory. make[3]: *** [prepare1] Error 1 make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2 NVIDIA: left KBUILD. nvidia.ko failed to build! make[1]: *** [module] Error 1 make: *** [module] Error 2 -> Error. ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module. 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!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 (edited) cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper and try again. /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk is not clean, please run 'make mrproper' Edited August 11, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjel Oslund Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 The make mrproper instruction didn't work for me. If you do it, the next time you run the nvidia installer, it will fail claiming that you do not have your source installed. I got around this problem by extracting the installers files (run the installed with the --extract-only option), then running make install from within the directory created. If you have already run make mrproper, you'll have to recreate the .config file in /usr/src/linux directory and run through the make xconfig (or config of your choice) before making the nvidia drivers. Be warned, nvidia's script does a lot of compiling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 (edited) :unsure: worked for me :unsure: I didn't have to do anything other than make mrproper typical linux, eh? :D Edited August 12, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 I can't really help, worked fine first time for me. The unofficial nvidia for linux forum is here if you haven't seen it. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdispl...p?s=&forumid=14 Maybe more help there, maybe not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 jlarter, I had the same problem too but i just didnt bother and stuck with the old drivers, I just thought i had done something wrong... Then i upgraded to MDK 10.1 beta1 and the driver installed fine in the new kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk, so I guess you only get the error when installing over a kernel which had a previous version of the driver already installed, but dont know this for sure... anyway I just wanna ask you to please post whatever you do to make it work so we all know. Thanks and good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawai Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 I had the same problems. It's the kernel version if I'm correct. I used 2.6.7 before, ran fine with the new driver. While the old one didn't work anymore. Then I switched back to 2.6.3, because 2.6.7 was just doing weird things. And there the new drivers didn't work anymore aswell. While the old ones ran perfectly. So I just suppose you need the newest drivers for the new kernels. While the older version of NVIDIA still work with the older ones. So yeah ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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