igotnoluck Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 (edited) Hi, well I've searched a lot of time and still i can't install the driver, I'm using a FX 5500 Nvidia card in 2008.0 system my kernel is kernel-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv I've download the nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv - nvidia-current driver for kernel 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv through the package installer but still it does not do anything (maybe i need to run something ?) please help :) thanks [moved from Cooker - arctic] Edited December 30, 2007 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 urpmi dkms-nvidia-current Then run "drakx11" as root. By "2008.1" you mean Cooker- or is it a typo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igotnoluck Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 By "2008.1" you mean Cooker- or is it a typo? typo. sorry i mean 2008.0 :) when i try to run what you said i get: [root@localhost nimrod]# urpmi dkms-nvidia-current http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.0/i586/media/non-free/backports/dkms-nvidia-current-169.07-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm installing dkms-nvidia-current-169.07-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing... ############################################# 1/1: dkms-nvidia-current ############################################# Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/169.07-1mdv2008.0/source -> /usr/src/nvidia-current-169.07-1mdv2008.0 DKMS: add Completed. Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv cannot be found at /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/build or /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/source. You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located. do i need to run this after i init 3 ? (stop the X server ?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 (edited) It took me a bit to figure out that one. The packages I used where urpmi kernel-source-latest kernel-desktop-latest kernel-desktop-devel-latest dkms-nvida Though that will also keep installing any new kernels that are released to the repositories. Edited December 30, 2007 by Dark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igotnoluck Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 (edited) after i urpmi what do i need to do ? and i get that: dkms-nivida does not exist Edited December 30, 2007 by igotnoluck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 (edited) Try dkms-nvidia-current (you misspelled nvidia ;-) Edited December 30, 2007 by pindakoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 I was unaware that there was a dkms-nvidia-current Then again don't use my wifes computer much lol And yeah nvidia. I have a tendancy to misspell it for some reason and was in to much of a hurry to catch it...again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igotnoluck Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 after i fixed the misspell i get this: root@localhost ~]# urpmi dkms-nvidia-current Package dkms-nvidia-current-169.07-1mdv2008.0.i586 is already installed Package dkms-nvidia-current-100.14.19-1mdv2008.0.i586 can not be installed and after removing it and trying again i get the same error as before: DKMS: add Completed. Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv cannot be found at /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/build or /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/source. You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located. what am i doing wrong here ? the output for uname -r is: 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv so this is the right kernel ? ihave another kernel in /lib/modules which is 2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv and it has the build@ directory ? the 22.9 doesn't have? i'm a newb so maybe i'm just shooting blind here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Did you happen to include kernel-desktop-latest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igotnoluck Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 i get this: [root@localhost ~]# urpmi kernel-desktop-latest Package kernel-desktop-latest-2.6.22.12-1mdv2008.0.i586 is already installed Packages kernel-desktop-latest-2.6.22.9-1mdv2008.0.i586, kernel-desktop-latest-2.6.22.9-1mdv2008.0.i586 can not be installed i don't understand why sometimes it install things for 2.6.22.9 and some time for 2.6.22.12 ? maybe this is the problem ? and i don't think the problem is for cooker section can someone from the administration could please move the topic back to hardware or software :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 if 2.6.22.12 is instealled and uname -r is returning 2.6.22.9 then I would say should reboot your computer to let the new kernel take effect, at boot time the nvidia driver should also install as it is a dkms module. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igotnoluck Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 i've already restarted my computer several times and each time i get the same thing. do i need to select the kernel in the GRUB menu ? (i have the 2 kernels selection in the menu) now i just click boot mandriva 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 As far as I am aware, the new kernel (2.6.22.12) is booted by defualt and the prior kernel is there in the rare case the new kernel breaks the system. Though if you did reboot after installing the new kernel and uname -r returnes the version of the old kernel then yeah to verify I would select the new kernel from the list and see what it returned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igotnoluck Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 OK, i made some progress, i searched google a little more and found sometihng anout putting links inside the kernel directory (build and source) so i did it and then i got this: [root@localhost ~]# urpmi dkms-nvidia-current http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.0/i586/media/non-free/backports/dkms-nvidia-current-169.07-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm installing dkms-nvidia-current-169.07-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing... ############################################# 1/1: dkms-nvidia-current ############################################# Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/169.07-1mdv2008.0/source -> /usr/src/nvidia-current-169.07-1mdv2008.0 DKMS: add Completed. Preparing kernel 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv for module build: (This is not compiling a kernel, just preparing kernel symbols) Storing current .config to be restored when complete Running Generic preparation routine make mrproper...... using /proc/config.gz make oldconfig...... make prepare..... Building module: cleaning build area.... make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/build module...... cleaning build area.... cleaning kernel tree (make mrproper).... DKMS: build Completed. Running module version sanity check. nvidia-current.ko.gz: - Original module - This kernel never originally had a module by this name - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ depmod.... DKMS: install Completed. i think its ok now, i will do a restart and check :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Let us know what it returns and good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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