tyme Posted April 3, 2003 Report Share Posted April 3, 2003 i installed the texstar multimedia kernel a la this thread that went fine. but then i attempted to install the nvidia drivers. first i used the most recent ncurses based install, which failed. so i thought i'd drop back one and try to build from the 4191 src RPMs. i rebuilt them without an error, but upon install i received the following error message: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/kernel/drivers/ video/nvidia.o /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol irq_stat_R3fd15214 /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license and it has unresolved symbols. The module may be trying to access GPLONLY symbols but the problem is more likely to be a coding or user error. Contact the module supplier for assistance, only they can help you. modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o fa iled modprobe: insmod nvidia failed Failed to install nvidia.o error: execution of %post scriptlet from NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 failed, exit sta tus 1 anyone have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 3, 2003 Report Share Posted April 3, 2003 what hapens when you run depmod -ae 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2003 this is the output: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o depmod: irq_stat_R3fd15214 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 Does the mm kernel have it's own kernel-source? Generaly the depmod error happens to newbies that don't have the kernel-source installed. You do, so....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 yeah, i installed the source (that was my first guess at the issue-it occured before i installed the sources too). by this i mean, of course, the kernel-sources RPM for the mm kernel. i even tried passing the directory holding the header files to the new nvidia installer program, same problem. i'll fiddle around, see if i can figure it out. for now i'm using the nv driver, which actually didn't work in 9.0 and with the original 9.1 kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 yep...it does. Can't get it here unless you are a member though....does texstar have it? kernel-multimedia-source-2.4.21-0.16mdk http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/KByName.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 yeah, got it from texstar. should i maybe try removing the rpms for the old kernel? think that might be interfering? and yes, /usr/src/linux is linked to the correct directory. linux -> linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 I feel rather stupid now. I uninstalled this kernel, then reinstalled, and when I was reinstalling I noticed that when rebuilding the src.rpm a kernel-source RPM was created along with the regular kernel RPM. After installing THAT kernel-source file (instead of the one that I had downloaded-obviously not built w/the flags I build my kernel with) everything went smoothly. Now to bang my head on my desk for not thinking of this earlier. Ah well, live and learn, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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