lets-eat-gary Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Hi people. I have just installed Mandrake 10.1 OE power pack. It comes with the Nvidia driver (6111) built in. Whilst it made everything easy when first setting up it has been a hassle to upgrade the driver to the newer version (6629). What are the steps to uninstallling the version that comes with 10.1 OE and installing the newer driver? I have tried a few things and have so far been unsuccessful, and ideas? I have also installed Fedora Core 3 recently and installed the most recent nvidia driver on that and it has made Doom 3 much faster and smoother so am hoping for the same with Mandrake 10.1 .... then i might try yoper ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 (edited) Just make sure you have your kernel-source installed and run nvidia-installer --update or, if the nvidia-installer pkg is not still there (should be), just grab the latest driver and install. It will see that you have an older driver and walk you through it. Edited November 29, 2004 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lets-eat-gary Posted November 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Thanks for such a speedy response Steve. Will try that tonight when i get home. On a seperate issue can Yanc work with Xorg ? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 just remember to run the installer with X disabled (from a terminal run service dm stop), and I also sometimes have to run the installer twice when upgrading the driver or switching kernel versions - if you get any odd error message, just run the installer again. When you're finished with the installer remove and reinsert the nvidia module, just to be safe - # modprobe -r nvidia # modprobe nvidia and restart X: # service -f dm and off you go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 I'm not 100% sure if yanc works with xorg, but the new drivers have something called nvidia-settings of their own, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lets-eat-gary Posted November 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 hi, I'm getting an error unable to build nvidia.ko' I have the kernel-source installed Any ideas ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Can you possibly post the few lines before and after that error? Look in /var/log/nvidia-installer.log for more verbose error messages. It's possible you need to update your module-init-tools-3.0-4mdk, but I'll know more after seeing a little more verbose error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lets-eat-gary Posted December 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Hi, I sorted it, it was due to urpmi installing the incorrect kernel-source version - I did urpmi kernel-source - it installed the 2.4 kernel one, i also had the 2.6.8-12 one but was still getting the nvidia KO error To resolve this i used MCC to remove all kernel-source versions - then did urpmi kernel-source-2.6 - driver installed fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 Yeah, that's a really stupid package naming 'feature/bug'. There's a Bugzilla bug with a bit of a flamefest going on about it, IIRC. Hope it gets fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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