pmpatrick Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 The title says it all. Just installed 9.2 which was a breeze. I think they really worked very hard to get the bugs out of the installer. Even the mouse doesn't freeze anymore. KDE is much faster/responsive and gnome flies. But I can't find the frickin kernel source on the cds making it impossible to install the nvidia drivers. I'm going to check the mirrors; they've got to make it available under the GPL. What a dumb move. Either that or I'm brain dead from fooling around with bittorrent. Edit: The kernel source rpm is available on the mirrors; it's downloading at 200KB/sec. How do you guys feel about posting the network floppy for 9.2 to allow others to do a network install of 9.2 directly off the mirrors? At 200KB/sec it beats the pants off of bittorrent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 :lol: if nothing else it should be on the mirrors somewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 it's definitely on the mirrors, check with urpmi kernel-source to see if it's on the discs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 they could always just install rc2 and upgrade with urpmi --auto-select that's what i just did (from the time of my last post till now). It would've been quicker but i was helping a freind w/ a lab :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 Already tried "urpmi kernel-source" and got no package found. I thought they may have renamed it which started me on my search and it ain't there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 I don't think kernel sources are needed (to install nvidia drivers). I followed the instructions from their page at: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...2_1.0-4496.html and ran their script... then changed "nv" to nvidia" in the config and was good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Not so for me. I ran the same driver script and it complained of no kernel headers and aborted. Ran fine after I installed the kernel source which I downloaded from the mirror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 I don't think kernel sources are needed (to install nvidia drivers). I followed the instructions from their page at: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...2_1.0-4496.html and ran their script... then changed "nv" to nvidia" in the config and was good to go. using normal mdk kernel maybe. anything higher and you need to have kernel sources Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 That could be the missing variable in this equation. I didn't touch my stock 9.1 kernel. It is version kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-1-1mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kormac Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 It would have been an even more awful catch 22 for me if I hadn't seen this on another forum somewhere and got the file before installing 9.2. I have an nforce2 motherboard, and am using the onboard ethernet. I would not have been able to compile the driver for it without kernel-source, and unable to download it because I couldn't get on the net. This omission is potentially critical for some of us.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 The reason you didn't need kernel sources for 9.1 is because they had made the drivers (in an rpm) already for the default kernel. 9.2 has yet to have said drivers created by nvidia. Also, if you have any non-strandard kernel, it will need to compile it for that kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Already tried "urpmi kernel-source" and got no package found. I thought they may have renamed it which started me on my search and it ain't there. Appears that as the 9.2 distro hits the mirrors, some stuff is removed and the server cron jobs don't update the hdlists that often. This is a time of great flux, so all the old habits will be off kilter as things change. That is the word from Experts and Cooker mail lists when I asked WTF with all the urpmi update failures and messages about installing an rpm that is in the list. Was told to be patient for a few days as it stablilzes. Ho Kay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 I found the kernel source here: ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mand...-10mdk.i586.rpm I have no clue why they do not include it in the download addition. I think it is crazy not to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 You know, untill I tried to install the kernel source was very happy with 9.2 But the idea of not including proper kernel source in the CD's is just rediculous. I'm very dissapointed in the mandrake soft team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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