error when updating to the latest nVidia driver

[Richard1098]

I have Mdv 2007.1 power pack. I've downloaded the latest:

 

dkms-nvidia and

nvidia

 

rpms from PLF. When I try to update them with rpm, I get the following:

 

 

 

Error! Could not find module source directory.

Directory: /usr/src/nvidia97xx-100.14.11-1plf2007.1 does not exist.

 

Error! DKMS tree does not contain: nvidia97xx-100.14.11-1plf2007.1

Build cannot continue without the proper tree.

 

Error! DKMS tree does not contain: nvidia97xx-100.14.11-1plf2007.1

Build cannot continue without the proper tree.

[root@localhost nVidia]#

[Greg2]

Please post the output of

uname -a

rpm -qa | grep kernel

rpm -qa | grep nvidia

[AussieJohn]

Did you do the download using Mandriva Control Centre. If you did not then it is most likely that a dependency is missing,

so if you did do it this way then you are going about installing RPMs the wrong way.

 

Cheers. John.

Edited September 30, 2007 by AussieJohn

[Richard1098]

Please post the output of

uname -a

rpm -qa | grep kernel

rpm -qa | grep nvidia

[richard@localhost Desktop]$ uname -a

Linux localhost 2.6.17-14mdv #1 SMP Wed May 9 21:11:43 MDT 2007 i686 Intel® Core2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GNU/Linux

[richard@localhost Desktop]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel

kernel-source-stripped-2.6.17.13mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-source-stripped-2.6.17.14mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-2.6.17.13mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-latest-2.6.17-14mdv

kernel-source-2.6.17.14mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-source-stripped-latest-2.6.17-14mdv

nvidia97xx-kernel-2.6.17-13mdv-9755-1mdk

kernel-source-2.6.17.13mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-2.6.17.14mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

[richard@localhost Desktop]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia

dkms-nvidia97xx-1.0-9755.1mdv2007.1

nvidia97xx-1.0-9755.1mdv2007.1

nvidia97xx-kernel-2.6.17-13mdv-9755-1mdk

[richard@localhost Desktop]$

[Greg2]

You have too many different kernel source packages. How are you installing your rpms? As AussieJohn has noted, you should set up your system with easyurpmi, and use the package manager, or urpmi. Please read this post on software installation and easyurpmi: Software installation

 

You should remove all the kernel source packages except the one (either stripped or complete) that matches your kernel. Then follow the instructions in that post to set up easyurpmi, then install the latest dkms-nvidia.

[adamw]

"You have too many different kernel source packages."

 

No, he doesn't. He has:

 

kernel-source-stripped-2.6.17.13mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-source-stripped-2.6.17.14mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-source-2.6.17.13mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-source-2.6.17.14mdv-1-1mdv2007.1

kernel-source-stripped-latest-2.6.17-14mdv

 

those packages should all co-exist fine. There's no *point* in having both -source and -source-stripped - you may as well remove -source-stripped - but it should work okay.

 

However, this is odd:

 

[richard@localhost Desktop]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia

dkms-nvidia97xx-1.0-9755.1mdv2007.1

nvidia97xx-1.0-9755.1mdv2007.1

nvidia97xx-kernel-2.6.17-13mdv-9755-1mdk

 

that shows no trace of the packages from PLF you claim you installed. Did you remove them?

[scarecrow]

Also, the nvidia driver revision is 2.6.17-13, while the running kernel is 2.6.17-14

One might get away with it and the nvidia module may load OK, but better install and run the 2.6.17-14 nvidia revision- or else get the driver directly from nvidia and run its installer after a "telinit 3"

Edited October 1, 2007 by scarecrow